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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Doha climate talks: India not to enhance its pledge of reducing emissions -Nitin Sethi

Doha climate talks: India not to enhance its pledge of reducing emissions -Nitin Sethi

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published Published on Dec 5, 2012   modified Modified on Dec 5, 2012
-The Times of India

DOHA: The Union environment and forests minister Jayanthi Natarajan may not come to the climate talks but the Indian delegation here led by special secretary M Mehrishi has got the nod from the cabinet to draw its strong redlines at the Doha round of UN negotiations.

The government has ordered the Indian delegation at Doha to not enhance its pledge of reducing emissions intensity at Doha and reiterated that the three critical issues of equity, intellectual property and unilateral actions by governments remain steadfast on the table.

It has approved the note which criticized EU for shifting the goal post yet again and resell the commitment to operationalise the Kyoto Protocol's second commitment period. The delegates are now empowered to negotiate an un-conditional approval of the protocol's second phase starting 2013.

The formal approval from the government comes at a time that the Doha talks have got log-jammed with the developed countries refusing to even discuss issues of value to the developing world, such as a timeline for delivering finance, adaptation, equity and unilateral actions under what is called the Long Term Cooperation Action (LCA) track. The track is to shut down this year and the developing countries want to move the unresolved issues from the track to the future talks which the rich nations have blocked so far.

The cabinet orders, unlike previous years come with no caveat or space for flexibility for the Indian delegation at Doha. They have commanded the delegation to ensure the pending issues find homes in future negotiations.

The orders prohibit the delegation from agreeing to any new obligations in the guise of supplementary actions unless they are taken in keeping with the provisions of the convention and only when the means of implementing such actions - finance and technology - are made available.

All commitments for future, the cabinet order requires, must be made realizing the historical responsibility and the principle of equity.

The Cabinet has also decided that any new obligation to reduce emissions through 'supplementary actions' should only be undertaken in adherence to the existing UN climate conventions and on availability of funds and technologies.

The cabinet has asked the delegation to work closely with the G77 plus China group, the BASIC formation and the new configuration called the Like Minded Developing Countries.

On the Durban Platform negotiations, the cabinet has approved that the Indian team secure a plan of work guided by the fifth IPCC review, the review of the convention itself, international consultation and analysis, international consultations, the biennial reports and updates and the national communications.

With the minister missing in action as the government fighting off the challenge from the opposition in the Parliament on the issue of foreign direct investment in the retail sector, the firm and unconditional orders from the cabinet are expected to steer the Indian position at Doha.

The Times of India, 4 December, 2012, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/environment/global-warming/Doha-climate-talks-India-not-to-enhance-its-pledge-of-reducing-emissions/articleshow/17478374.c


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