New Delhi: India on Sunday said there was no question of taking any binding carbon emission cuts, indicating the coordinated approach major emerging economies including Beijing and New Delhi are likely to adopt at the climate change summit in Copenhagen, which is just a week away.
"There cannot be any emission cuts... that is what we have said and this is also which is something what the developed countries have said...that they (industrialised nations) don't expect countries like India, actually to sign on to emission reduction target but rather to sign to a deviation from business as usual," the country's top climate negotiator Shyam Saran told a private channel at Port of Spain.
Saran's views have come a day after India and China
along with other developing nations forged a common front to
put a pressure on the developed nations at the UN summit that
begins from December 7.
Saran dismissed notions that there was any pressure on India to taken on legal emission cuts at the forthcoming meet and instead referred to various voluntarily steps taken by it whether it was in terms of renewable energy or improvement in energy efficiency.
The steps have actually added up to a very major contribution to the global efforts on mitigation, the special envoy to Prime Minister on Climate Change noted.
He maintained that, "it is a question how this (mitigation steps) has to be reflected at Copenhagen. And what we have stated is that we are in a position to reflect whatever we are doing in the form of our national
communication to the UN Framework on Climate Change (UNFCCC)."
PTI
First Published: Sunday, November 29, 2009, 19:04