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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | African nations back India on emissions by Nitin Sethi

African nations back India on emissions by Nitin Sethi

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published Published on Mar 13, 2012   modified Modified on Mar 13, 2012

A tectonic shift in the global climate negotiations got underway with the African group of countries siding with India in demanding that equity and 'common but differentiated responsibilities' be embedded in the talks for a future climate regime.

The re-alignments became evident with several key groups of nations submitting their views on how countries should increase their ambition levels for cutting emissions in the coming years.

The submissions from Association of Small Island States (AOSIS) and the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) show that they are in closer and open alignment with the European Union while the major developing economies from Africa have transited openly to throw their weight behind the emerging economies and especially back India.

The cracks in the over-arching G77+China group of more than 100 developing countries had become evident in the past three years with the AOSIS and LDCs shifting their posts closer to that of EU in Durban. In fact, these groups were often seen defending the EU even when the European countries found it difficult to put forth their own line of attack against the emerging economies.

Members of the AOSIS group had blocked any attempt to review whether the developed economies had met their existing obligations under the UN climate convention even though the review would have had no impact on them.

The submissions this time around have brought the new alignments in the open. While India had recommended that the rich countries should first set sights on their own emission levels and reduce them further up to 2020 before pushing the emerging economies to take stronger actions, the EU and AOSIS have played blind to any demand of formulating a burden sharing formula for emission reduction or linking actions of developing countries to finance and technology while pushing the emerging economies to take emission reduction measures immediately.

The re-alignment reflects the fact that even if the existing firewall between the developed and developing world is broken down, only the larger developing economies would face greater obligations to reduce emissions and the smaller countries like those in the LDC and AOSIS countries would not need to shoulder any responsibility as their tiny economies hardly add to the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

If the firewall cracks, after the emerging economies like China, India and Brazil, it's the larger African economies such as Egypt and Nigeria that would face the pressure to take emission cuts even though their historical responsibility remains miniscule.


The Times of India, 13 March, 2012, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/African-nations-back-India-on-emissions/articleshow/12239708.cms


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