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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Durban climate talks: India seeks climate deal to keep Kyoto Protocol alive by Nitin Sethi

Durban climate talks: India seeks climate deal to keep Kyoto Protocol alive by Nitin Sethi

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published Published on Dec 4, 2011   modified Modified on Dec 4, 2011

Environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan landed in Durban on Sunday ahead of the high-level climate talks to hammer out a decision that only the political heads of 195 countries can take - a compromise that would ensure Kyoto Protocol remains alive and that the world signals readiness to discuss a new legally binding deal for all in future. This political decision would be the master key to a success at Durban.

India had gone into the Durban discussions with two key principles. It wants the Cancun agreements signed last year to be operationalised and Kyoto Protocol saved effectively beyond 2012 when its first phase gets over. The third Cabinet decision was to, if needed, agree to discussions on a new legally binding treaty to be kick-started in 2015 and not before.

Sources in Durban said a lot of progress had been made over the week on operationalising the Cancun agreements but the key issue of how to balance Kyoto Protocol and kick-start discussions on a new climate regime in future could only be resolved by the political heads starting on Monday.

But the steadfast unity in the BASIC countries and common ground with US has ensured that EU, which had vehemently demanded that the formal talks on a new, single and legally binding agreement begin at Durban itself, is feeling cornered, in almost a replay of the Copenhagen dialogue in 2009.

In the past six days of talks, the EU publicly stuck to its demand but sources said the firm BASIC grouping had ensured that many were now looking at a compromise formula to break the deadlock. It would take Europe to go one step back and the BASIC to lead.

"The key decision that ministers will have to make is how we can provide 'mutual reassurance' to different blocs that Kyoto Protocol will not be rendered useless (even if it's kept alive) and that the emerging economies and the US were not against a new treaty in future but just not ready right now," a negotiator told TOI.

On the last day of the first week of talks, discussions had made headway on different elements of the package of finance, technology and emission reduction that countries had agreed to at Cancun last year.

Many of these elements will be almost finalized by Tuesday, leaving key and difficult decisions to be sorted out by the political heads of delegations even as they resolve the big ticket formula for Kyoto and the new deal.

The Times of India, 5 December, 2011, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/environment/global-warming/Durban-climate-talks-India-seeks-climate-deal-to-keep-Kyoto-Protocol-alive/articleshow/10985953


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