New Delhi, Nov 02: After ten days of wranglings, 170 nations at the UN meet here on Friday night adopted by consensus a 13-point Delhi Declaration giving new directions to tackle climate change, signifying a major victory for developing countries. While emphasising mitigation approach to combat global warming, the document brought into focus the issue of adaptation, technology transfer and capacity building, crucial for the developing world. Linking climate change with sustainable development, the "Delhi Conference succeeded in making the Clean Development Mechanism fully operational", Conference President and Indian Environment Minister T R Baalu said summing up the outcome of the ten-day meet which he termed as "win-win" for all the 186 member countries of the UN Convention.
The Conference decided to hold the ninth UN meet on Climate change in Italy next year, he told a news conference. Following stiff resistance from China and G-77 developing contries, including India, the key demand of developed countries for inclusion of initiating dialogue on further commitments by developing countries upon entry into force of Kyoto Protocol (KP) was dropped from the document. Bureau Report