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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Jayanthi Natarajan opposes global pact to cut greenhouse gas emissions at Durban by Urmi A Goswami

Jayanthi Natarajan opposes global pact to cut greenhouse gas emissions at Durban by Urmi A Goswami

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published Published on Dec 12, 2011   modified Modified on Dec 12, 2011

At the president's informal stock taking plenary, held in the early hours of Sunday, environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan made a final attempt to ensure that India's redlines - legally binding deal and differentiation between developing and developed countries - were not crossed. 

Making her case, Natarajan reminded that India was in Durban to "find a solution to the entire issue of climate change." 

"India has shown more flexibility than any other party. The centerpiece of the climate change action should be equity. Many people have come told me to drop 'legal outcome' and have blamed India for insisting on 'legal outcome,' I was told this would affect the outcome process. 

India is not intimidated by threats. But what is this legal instrument? How do I give a blank cheque signing away the livelihood rights of 1.2 billion members of our population?" Natarajan's speech ensured that the inclusion of the concept of equity in the fight against climate change became part of the package. 

The package said all countries would be part of a global pact to control greenhouse gas emissions. Natarajan ensured there was a third option - "an agreed outcome with legal force" - apart from protocol or a legal instrument. 

The third option was included after a dramatic huddle while the plenary session of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change summit came to a halt. The two main actors were Natarajan and European Union Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard, who started the row by objecting to the agreements reached behind closed doors. 

India had wanted a "legal outcome" as the third option, but Hedegaard said this would put countries" sincerity in doubt. That set off Natarajan, who roared: "We have shown more flexibility than virtually any other country. But equity is the centrepiece, it cannot be shifted. This is not about India." 

Does fighting climate change mean we have to give up on equity? We have agreed to protocol and legal instrument. What's the problem in having one more option? India will never be intimidated by any threat or any kind of pressure. 

We're talking of livelihoods and sustainability here. I'm not accusing anybody, but there are efforts to shift the (climate) problem to countries that have not contributed to it. If that is done, we're willing to reopen the entire Durban Package. We did not issue a threat. But are we being made into a scapegoat? Please don't hold us hostage.


The Economic Times, 12 December, 2011, http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/jayanthi-natarajan-opposes-global-pact-to-cut-greenhouse-gas-emissions-at-durban/articleshow/11075205.cm


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