NEW DELHI: India's strong climate change
stance got a boost from Brazil in Durban. The Latin American nation
demanded more action from the developed world, and asked for a
burden-sharing formula to be worked out before a new global deal is
sealed.
Brazil's minister of environment Izabella Teixeira and climate change ambassador Luiz Alberto Figueiredo Machado spoke to TOI, reaffirming that India's partner country in the BASIC group was clear that it wanted the second commitment period of Kyoto Protocol to be ensured at the meet in Durban.
"The survival of the Kyoto Protocol system means the survival of the top-down approach, which in our view is the approach that should guide the future of the international fight against climate change," said Machado.
The US and other developed nations are keen to introduce a new global deal - called the bottoms-up approach - where every country commits whatever target they wish to.
Kyoto works on breaking the emissions reduction target down to countries based on historical responsibility and economic status. India has demanded that equity and burden sharing is central to talks on any future climate deal that imposes cuts upon developing countries.
Agreeing with the Indian position that talks for a new global deal should begin in 2015 and firm up by 2020 when the second phase of Kyoto Protocol ends, the Brazilian ambassador said, "We should have a second commitment period that will end in 2020. We have been talking...on having a timeline that will take us from now, from Durban to a negotiation that may well start by 2015."
He added, "We are going to have a review of the current actions from 2013-15 and then the fifth assessment report of IPCC, so bother things happening at the same time will certainly signal a good time to engage into a renewed phase of negotiations looking at the post-2020 architecture." His statement was in sync with that of environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan made here a few days ago.
The strong alliance and uniformity of views among the BASIC countries and the US seemed to have had some impact, with the recently concluded meeting of Major Economies Forum discussing a middle path of providing reassurances to each other rather than agreeing to the EU position. EU had threatened that it would not sign the Kyoto Protocol-II, unless emerging economies kick-start formal discussions on a legally binding global deal in Durban.
Brazil's minister of environment Izabella Teixeira and climate change ambassador Luiz Alberto Figueiredo Machado spoke to TOI, reaffirming that India's partner country in the BASIC group was clear that it wanted the second commitment period of Kyoto Protocol to be ensured at the meet in Durban.
"The survival of the Kyoto Protocol system means the survival of the top-down approach, which in our view is the approach that should guide the future of the international fight against climate change," said Machado.
The US and other developed nations are keen to introduce a new global deal - called the bottoms-up approach - where every country commits whatever target they wish to.
Kyoto works on breaking the emissions reduction target down to countries based on historical responsibility and economic status. India has demanded that equity and burden sharing is central to talks on any future climate deal that imposes cuts upon developing countries.
Agreeing with the Indian position that talks for a new global deal should begin in 2015 and firm up by 2020 when the second phase of Kyoto Protocol ends, the Brazilian ambassador said, "We should have a second commitment period that will end in 2020. We have been talking...on having a timeline that will take us from now, from Durban to a negotiation that may well start by 2015."
He added, "We are going to have a review of the current actions from 2013-15 and then the fifth assessment report of IPCC, so bother things happening at the same time will certainly signal a good time to engage into a renewed phase of negotiations looking at the post-2020 architecture." His statement was in sync with that of environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan made here a few days ago.
The strong alliance and uniformity of views among the BASIC countries and the US seemed to have had some impact, with the recently concluded meeting of Major Economies Forum discussing a middle path of providing reassurances to each other rather than agreeing to the EU position. EU had threatened that it would not sign the Kyoto Protocol-II, unless emerging economies kick-start formal discussions on a legally binding global deal in Durban.
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