GBA appreciates India’s stand on carbon emission

India, has however, broken the ice, openly agreeing in a meeting in Cancun that it would consider the binding treaty. India's Environment Minister, Jairam Ramesh, has, shifted from his country’s earlier stand that India was ready to look at a binding deal at an appropriate time, and GBA appreciates India’s stand. He was speaking in a meeting in Cancun to discuss how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that is causing heavy damage to the global climate and GBA has appreciated the move by India.

In the last Copenhagen Summit, U.S., China, India and over 80 other countries had promised to make a voluntary cut in carbon emission, at least to the extent of limiting their growth. China, in fact, had said that it had no obligations as a developing nation, while the US had completely rejected the treaty in 2001.
India, has however, broken the ice, openly agreeing that it would consider the binding treaty. India's Environment Minister, Jairam Ramesh, has, shifted from his country’s earlier stand that India was ready to look at a binding deal at an appropriate time, and GBA appreciates India’s stand.

GBA, God Believers Association, formerly known as National Integration Assembly (NIA), an NGO dedicated to promote human rights, world peace, and which acts as an Awareness Platform for global climatic disorders with its main mission of saving the earth planet, has appreciated the stand India has taken to consider the binding deal in any future date, and this is a good step which can pave way for other countries including China.

He suggested that all countries should make such a commitment under a proper legal form. His county would watch certain other issues like shape of future agreement, the penalty clause for non-compliance.

Dr. Raj Baldev, Cosmo Theorist, Lead Man of God Believers Association (GBA) said that in India, the position of  India's Environment Minister, Jairam Ramesh has raised a question in the country, they feel it is his personal opinion and not of the govt.
“Whatever the Minister has said, there is nothing wrong, he has paved the way for other nations to follow the lead and it is a justified stand taken by Jairam Ramesh, Dr. Raj Baldev, GBA Lead Man said.

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Though China has also called for flexibility in the Cancun talks, including on outside monitoring of its climate actions, it still opposes a binding treaty.

With the talks scheduled to close today, Japan said they might enter another day as it maintained its stance on the future of the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012.
Mr Yamada hoped all sides would come up with acceptable language and insisted disputes other than Kyoto were holding up progress. But Bolivian President Evo Morales, who has emerged as a leading critic of the UN-led talks, demanded more far-reaching action.

"If we here throw the Kyoto Protocol into the garbage dump, we would be responsible for economy-cide, for ecocide - indeed, for genocide - as we would be harming humanity as a whole," Mr Morales said to loud applause.

Mr Morales, Bolivia's first indigenous leader, called for an agreement that protects native populations and called for climate aid to poor countries at a level "equivalent to the budget that developed countries spend on defence, security and warfare".
Conference president, Mexican Foreign Secretary Patricia Espinosa, was upbeat: "A broad and balanced package of decisions is within our grasp."

But Achim Steiner, the head of the UN Environment Program, said: "We all will leave knowing very clearly that we have not very significantly changed the time window in which the world will be able to address climate change."

Source: "International Reporter"