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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | “Ramesh has rubbished consistent position on climate change” by Neena Vyas

“Ramesh has rubbished consistent position on climate change” by Neena Vyas

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published Published on Dec 5, 2009   modified Modified on Dec 5, 2009


Bharatiya Janata Party leader Arun Jaitley on Friday charged that Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh had in fact rubbished India’s consistent position on climate change and “endorsed the principle put forward by the developed world.”

India gave in to the “bandwagon effect,” following China in announcing voluntary cuts in carbon emission intensity, not caring about the fact that its per capita emissions were far higher than India’s, he said. In any case, it was “bad negotiating strategy” to announce “unilateral concessions before multilateral negotiations” without waiting to see what the developed countries’ approach would be.

Mr. Jaitley found fault with the Minister’s response to Thursday’s debate in the Lok Sabha, where he announced that India would unilaterally reduce its carbon emission intensity by 20-25 per cent by 2020. He said this was the result of succumbing to various pressure groups.

Mr. Jaitley was also sceptical of Mr. Ramesh’s statement that he wanted India to have “flexibility,” and wondered whether this really meant giving in to the position of developed countries which always remained critical of the equitable per capita emissions stand taken by India in the past.

“Earlier India’s position was that our emissions per capita would not exceed the per capita emissions of the developed countries, while now the government was talking about India’s per capita emissions remaining less than that of developed countries.” He strongly questioned the logic of accepting a lower per capita norm.

Mr. Jaitley first said it was wrong on the part of the Minister to suggest, as he did, that India should break away from the G-77 group in relation to the stance to be taken at the Climate Change conference in Copenhagen, but after it was pointed out that China and Brazil and some other countries had announced some voluntary cuts, Mr. Jaitley said India should not be afraid of being isolated. “Such fear of isolation is imaginary.”

He took exception to Mr. Ramesh’s statement that so far India had adopted a “do-nothing” approach to climate change which would have an adverse impact on India. The fact was that even according to Mr. Ramesh India had been able to cut its carbon emission intensity by 17.6 per cent between 1990 and 2005. This would not have been possible had India done nothing. It was wrong on the part of the Minister to “rubbish” the efforts put in by previous governments.


The Hindu, 5 December, 2009, http://www.hindu.com/2009/12/05/stories/2009120561921400.htm
 

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