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India won't accept legally binding emission cuts: Jairam Ramesh
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by Amitjha | November 19, 2009 at 03:32 am
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Holistically speaking, there should not be any politics on environmental issues. But the reality is every country, whether from east or west, trying to gain on carbon currency front. Who will win or loss is very tough to decide, in short term one can say that they won by pushing poor countries but in long run they will suffer most, same applies in reverse order.
The whole framework on climate change is conflicting in nature, you introduce monetary incentive to control pollution, so the it is inherently quarrelsome.
We humans are greedy, and we blame this greed not ourselves for all misdeeds.
Here in India, one of the most vocal country on environmental front, the upcoming summit in Copenhagen renewed the debate of clean development mechanism. Where India should draw a line, how much it can give to gain what?
Do not expect anything much from next month's climate summit in Copenhagen, environment minister Jairam Ramesh said on Thursday,
reiterating that India is not going to accept any legally binding cuts on its greenhouse gas emissions.
"Don't expect anything much from Copenhagen. We will stick to our stand," Ramesh told reporters here while releasing the State of World Population Report 2009.
"It seems there is a long haul before we arrive at an international commitment," he added.
The Dec 7-18 summit of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change is anyway unlikely to produce any global deal on combating global warming, because rich countries responsible for the damage have neither promised significant emission cuts nor put on the table significant money to help developing countries fight climate change effects.
Ramesh stated that rather than committing to legally binding cuts internationally, India needs to take proactive steps domestically to tackle climate change.
"We need to be proactive, aggressive and ruthless in our domestic obligations. We need to draw a distinction," he added.
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at 11:37 on November 19th, 2009
India needs to take proactive steps domestically to tackle climate change.
I am inclined to believe the author of the news item. India and countries like China and the U.S. will have to initiate changes incrementally within their ecomonic time frames, and those time frames will be different for every country. While they can agree on goals internationally, setting time frames is more difficult.
In the U.S. states like California are setting their own goals. Starting in 2011, energy use for the big screen TVs has to be reduced; therefore, the industries who develop these televisions will have to create energy saving TVs or lose the California market. This was done successfully with refrigerators beginning in the 1980s forcing market changes, rather than reduction in indivudual useage which is unrealistic in the case of applicances. But these pressures can be brought to bear in other areas as well. Emission standards can be adopted by countries, states, and even counties.