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Ramesh leaves for Cancun preparatory meeting
RAMESH-CLIMATE
New Delhi, Nov 2 (PTI) Indian Environment Minister Jairam
Ramesh on Tuesday left for Cancun to attend a ministerial meet
to be held on Thursday and Friday to discuss strategies for
the crucial UN summit on climate change scheduled there later
this month.
Before leaving for the meet, Ramesh said that he was not
very hopeful of any agreement given the way the developed
countries had failed to meet their obligations whether it was
on carbon emission front or in releasing climate fund to the
developing nations to meet the challenges.
"The promised USD 30 billion is nowhere in the sight. At
best we can hope to get USD 8 or 9 billion which is just
peanuts," Ramesh said.
However, he was of the opinion that certain agreements on
forestry and clean technology might be arrived upon at the
meeting to be attended by over 192 UN members.
India along with other BASIC members including Brazil,
China and South Africa have been emphasising that "the outcome
of Cancun conference should be based on the balance between
and within the two negotiating tracks under UN Framework
Convention on Climate Change (FCCC) and Kyoto Protocol, and
that it should be open, transparent, inclusive, party-driven
and based on consensus."
The climate change conference in Copenhagen last year
yielded the contentious and non-binding Copenhagen Accord.
The Accord was produced by 29 countries, but was
principally drafted by the US along with BASIC members at the
eleventh hour.
It was rejected by countries including Bolivia,
Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba for having left the majority of
the nations out of the negotiating process. PTI AJ
HMI
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New Delhi, Nov 2 (PTI) Indian Environment Minister Jairam
Ramesh on Tuesday left for Cancun to attend a ministerial meet
to be held on Thursday and Friday to discuss strategies for
the crucial UN summit on climate change scheduled there later
this month.
Before leaving for the meet, Ramesh said that he was not
very hopeful of any agreement given the way the developed
countries had failed to meet their obligations whether it was
on carbon emission front or in releasing climate fund to the
developing nations to meet the challenges.
"The promised USD 30 billion is nowhere in the sight. At
best we can hope to get USD 8 or 9 billion which is just
peanuts," Ramesh said.
However, he was of the opinion that certain agreements on
forestry and clean technology might be arrived upon at the
meeting to be attended by over 192 UN members.
India along with other BASIC members including Brazil,
China and South Africa have been emphasising that "the outcome
of Cancun conference should be based on the balance between
and within the two negotiating tracks under UN Framework
Convention on Climate Change (FCCC) and Kyoto Protocol, and
that it should be open, transparent, inclusive, party-driven
and based on consensus."
The climate change conference in Copenhagen last year
yielded the contentious and non-binding Copenhagen Accord.
The Accord was produced by 29 countries, but was
principally drafted by the US along with BASIC members at the
eleventh hour.
It was rejected by countries including Bolivia,
Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba for having left the majority of
the nations out of the negotiating process. PTI AJ
HMI
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