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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | India's first big victory: 'Equity' to find anchor in future climate deal by Nitin Sethi

India's first big victory: 'Equity' to find anchor in future climate deal by Nitin Sethi

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published Published on Dec 7, 2011   modified Modified on Dec 7, 2011

India won a major battle at the Durban climate talks with the issue of equity being included in the agenda for all future talks. 

While the formal decision to this extent would come only towards the end of the meeting this week, sources told TOI, that the key countries had agreed that the issue of 'equity' in climate actions and carbon space should be fitted into the negotiating text for any talks that lead up to a new climate regime. The talks are now expected to fix an exact placeholder for the issue by the time the Durban negotiations draw to a close. 

Union environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan had gone to Durban with the demand that three issues - equity, intellectual property rights and trade barriers be discussed formally in the UN negotiations before any new deal is finalized. 

Confabulations behind closed doors backed by strong support from the BASIC countries and other important G77+China group nations ensured that despite pressure from the developed world 'equity ' became almost an anthem in the Durban meet. 

It was important for the developing countries to insert a dialogue on installing equity in the climate talks because the likelihood of the Kyoto Protocol failing in near future seemed imminent. The protocol is the only tool that to some extent operationalises the concept of equity between nations. But with the protocol dead, or on death bed, India needed the concept to be embedded in the future talks to ensure burden sharing on reducing emissions, finance and technology are based on principles of fairness and justice. 

The unity in BASIC countries on the move has ensured that the rich world was forced to accept that the concept of equity would be embedded in a dialogue process within the UN talks. This would allow India to demand that any future deal activates the principle in its finalized provisions 

The other two issues India has proposed - intellectual property rights on green technologies and banning unilateral trade barriers is yet to be resolved but Natarajan's team has insisted that these two must find place in the future dialogues.


The Times of India, 7 December, 2011, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/environment/global-warming/Indias-first-big-victory-Equity-to-find-anchor-in-future-climate-deal/articleshow/11017855.cms


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