Germany wants binding and verifiable rules on climate change

New Delhi, Feb 2 (PTI) As 55 nations submitted to UN
their planned mitigation actions to tackle global warming,
Germany Tuesday made a strong pitch for "binding and
verifiable rules" for everyone on climate protection.

"Climate protection can only work if -- as in the case of
cricket -- there are binding and verifiable rules for everyone
which are accepted by all as fair and just," German President
Horst Koehler said at a business meeting here.
He lauded India's national action plan to tackle climate
change as "far-sighted" and said that there was a need to
focus on the question of "global per-capita emissions" as has
been argued at international fora by Germany and India.
"Concentrating on this (global per-capita emissions) will
provide a standard for fairness in the long term," said
Koehler, who is on a week-long visit here.
He termed the outcome of the Copenhagen climate talks as
"disappointing" but pointed out that the meeting showed that
"although we agree that we want to limit global warming to two
degrees, there are still huge differences of opinion on how we
can achieve this target".
"The disappointing outcome of the Copenhagen Conference
shows that the international community still has far to go if
it wants to effectively protect the one world we share,"
Koehler said. MORE PTI SKU
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