`Climate talks a `dead end` if Danish proposal put forward`

New Delhi, Nov 30 (PTI) Global climate talks at
Copenhagen on December 5 would be at a "dead end" if a Danish
draft proposal, urging the world adopt 2020 as the year when
the emissions will peak, is put forward, Indian Environment
Minister Jairam Ramesh said Monday.
"If the Denmark draft is any indication then we are
heading to a dead end. The draft, which is not based on
realistic estimations, is totally unacceptable to us," Ramesh
told PTI.
Stressing that there was no question of taking binding
emission cuts, he said that to counter the Danish draft, the
major emerging economies like China, South Africa and Brazil
have prepared their own draft in Beijing which, he felt, "is
more into what our expectations and objectives are."
"It is yet to get the support of the G-77. It will be
unveiled tomorrow at the Copenhagen, giving our side of the
view and our non-negotiable position."
Ramesh, who was on a two-day visit to China, recently
along with counterparts from Brazil and South Africa signed
the 10-page draft which is being conceived as a counter to the
text that will be released by western countries next week as a
possible basis for talks at the meet slated to start on
December 7.
"It meets our expectations and aspirations and
supports our non-negotiable stands of no binding emission
cuts, mitigation and adaptation actions to be supported by the
international fund and no peaking year to be declared at the
international forum," Ramesh added. (MORE) PTI