Nepal government set a World Record by holding a cabinet meeting at Kala Patthar, near Everest base camp. The event was live broadcasted worldwide causing unprecedented media coverage. It was a successful event, even though most of the Nepali think it was an unnecessary expense and the transportation helicopters caused further environment degradation.

Now, it is time to take the decision made in the meeting to the international climate change summit in Copenhagen. The PM is going to the meeting with more than 60 people with him. He choose to ignore the experts’ suggestion to take only 5 people with him.  He is given a 3 minutes time to talk at the summit.

Nepali people are wondering why eight Nepali ministers and almost a dozen Constituent Assembly (CA) members are among the people going to the summit. It is understandable that ministers who have an official role in the summit, forest minister Deepak Bohara, environment minister Thakur Sharma and State Minister for Science Indra Prasad Dhungel are already in Copenhagen.

But, ministers Sujata Koirala, Surendra Pandey, Sharat Singh Bhandari and Minendra Rijal have nothing to do at the summit. The dozen CA members are also on their vacation in Copenhagen on taxpayer’s money.

It is estimated that about 600 Nepali including the government delegates, journalists and experts representing various national and international organizations are participating in the summit.