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| US-BASIC 'Copenhagen Accord' disapp |
| US-BASIC 'Copenhagen Accord' disappoints poor nations
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 19-December-2009
2:19:50 AM |
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A US-brokered deal with four emerging economies, including India, on climate change that places no legally-binding emission cuts on developed countries ran into rough weather on Saturday with a majority of poor countries rejecting it, saying that it was one-sided.
The deal between the US and BASIC (Brazil, South Africa, India and China) bloc is apparently a gain for develop countries which are required under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol to take legally binding emission cuts.
The Protocol expires on 2012 and the 194-nation Conference of Parties (COP) of the United Nations here has apparently failed to get a word on its extension.
Indian negotiators -- Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh and Prime Minister's Special Envoy on Climate Shyam Saran -- themselves acknowledged the fact that the deal is not done until it is approved by the plenary. However, Ramesh claimed that it was "a good deal."
"Right now we have a document that says that we continue with negotiations on what to do about the future, including the Bali Action Plan and Kyoto Protocol," Saran said.
Angry delegates of many countries like Tuvalu, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Venezuela and Cuba slammed the US-BASIC deal for showing them great "disrespect" by leaving them out of the drafting process and imposing their document on vast majority.
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