Failure of Copenhagen summit could be disaster, says France

New Delhi, Nov 13 (PTI) France Friday warned that
failure of the Copenhagen conference on climate change can
prove to be a "disaster" and came up with a Climate Justice
Plan (CJP) which divides the nations into three categories on
basis of carbon emissions.

"Everybody around the world claims that Copenhagen is
in danger and it is going to be a failure, which, ofcourse,
will be a disaster and would trigger off a period of blame
game between nations," French Ecology, Energy and Sustainable
Development Minister Jean-Louis Borloo told reporters here.
Borloo is in India to deliver a letter from French
President Nikolas Sarkozy on Copenhagen Conference in December
to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
The French Minister said that the conference can be
turned in to a success, for which "we need to get out of all
these excuses, confusion and the rhetoric. What we really need
to do is to put candidly on paper, in black and white, those
six simple points (for tackling climate change)."
Borloo said for using Copenhagen to fight against
poverty also, France has come up with the CJP, which will
cover least-developed countries in Asia, Africa and some
vulnerable and small island states with no access to clean
technology and carbon markets.
He added that CJP will have countries such as India,
which want to keep growing but also need to work on curbing
emissions in the second category and industrialised nations in
the last (third category). (MORE) PTI AJD
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