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Big setback for India at Cancun climate summit

Cancun: In a huge setback for India at the climate summit in Cancun, the four BASIC countries including India, China, Brazil and South Africa, which have so far been united in their stand on the issue of emission cuts, are now deeply divided.

Brazil and South Africa now say they are open to the idea of legally binding emission cuts. Till now, both countries were one with India and China wanting developing countries to only accept voluntary emission cuts.

And it's not just the divide among BASIC countries that India has to contend with. Several G-77 countries are now saying that all developing countries should accept legally binding emission cuts.

India and China are hence getting increasingly isolated among the Group of 77 developing countries.

Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh is in Cancun, Mexico for the two-week climate summit, which is in its final phase now.

PROGRESS AT CANCUN 'INSUFFICIENT': BAN

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said the progress at the climate conference in Cancun has been
"insufficient"

"Business as usual cannot be tolerated, for it would condemn millions no, billions of children, women, and men around the world to shrinking horizons, and smaller futures," Ban told delegates of 194 nations at the climate change conference.

Kicking off the high-level segment of the climate conference as the two-week talks entered the final four days, he said: "Cancun must represent a breakthrough. The status quo will not do".

"However, I am deeply concerned that our efforts so far have been insufficient...that despite the evidence, and many years of negotiation, we are still not rising to the challenge, he said, adding "Determination must be our watchword."

There final few days of the meeting are expected to achieve significant outcomes on issues like reduction of greenhouse gases, providing money to developing countries and saving forests.

Big setback for India at Cancun climate summit
 
Big setback for India at Cancun climate summit

Cancun: In a huge setback for India at the climate summit in Cancun, the four BASIC countries including India, China, Brazil and South Africa, which have so far been united in their stand on the issue of emission cuts, are now deeply divided.

Brazil and South Africa now say they are open to the idea of legally binding emission cuts. Till now, both countries were one with India and China wanting developing countries to only accept voluntary emission cuts.

And it's not just the divide among BASIC countries that India has to contend with. Several G-77 countries are now saying that all developing countries should accept legally binding emission cuts.

India and China are hence getting increasingly isolated among the Group of 77 developing countries.

Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh is in Cancun, Mexico for the two-week climate summit, which is in its final phase now.

PROGRESS AT CANCUN 'INSUFFICIENT': BAN

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said the progress at the climate conference in Cancun has been
"insufficient"

"Business as usual cannot be tolerated, for it would condemn millions no, billions of children, women, and men around the world to shrinking horizons, and smaller futures," Ban told delegates of 194 nations at the climate change conference.

Kicking off the high-level segment of the climate conference as the two-week talks entered the final four days, he said: "Cancun must represent a breakthrough. The status quo will not do".

"However, I am deeply concerned that our efforts so far have been insufficient...that despite the evidence, and many years of negotiation, we are still not rising to the challenge, he said, adding "Determination must be our watchword."

There final few days of the meeting are expected to achieve significant outcomes on issues like reduction of greenhouse gases, providing money to developing countries and saving forests.

Big setback for India at Cancun climate summit

u r trying to show as if india has lost something. the fact of the matter is it is not good for all developing countries. brazil and south africa with their limited population can susutain with idea of legally binding agreement. india and china have large population with greatre energy needs hence they wont agree.

and india and china wont agree to legally binding agreement.
 
Ramesh has clarified India's official stance

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India rejects accepting legally binding emission cuts

Cancun (MEXICO): Cracks have developed among India and three other developing countries on accepting legally-binding emission cuts at the climate change summit here, with Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh saying there is concerted pressure on the country and China to accept such cuts.

“There are differences within BASIC [Brazil, South Africa, India and China]. India and China are united on this issue. Brazil and South Africa are united,” Mr. Ramesh said.

“This pressure is coming from developed countries through the AOSIS [Alliance of Small Islands States], BASIC and LDCs [Least Developed Countries].”

“At this stage India's strategy is to keep the door open, the door was being closed on us,” he said.

Rejecting the legally-binding emission cuts, Mr. Ramesh said India, China and the United States were not in favour of it, though such a move is supported by other developed countries, and several nations within the G77.

India was not ready to show flexibility at this stage on the issue of binding emission cuts, and would insist on a second commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol, set to expire in 2012, he said.

“There can be no flexibility on these,” he added.

As per the Kyoto Protocol, rich nations are supposed to take legally-binding emission cuts, while no such provision exists for developing countries.

India, along with most other developing countries, has been maintaining that taking up binding emissions cuts will hamper its growth, including poverty alleviation efforts.

Referring to the “flexible” stance taken by India in the past one year since the Copenhagen meet, Mr. Ramesh said India's position on climate change had been evolving, and needed to evolve further. — PTI
 
Not to worry China is not going to budge whatever world opinion is.

Yes so is India but not by arrogance. Both the countries need to work even more closely than they were...We don't want to be in a situation when there are only 2 countries on one side...
 

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