No question of taking any binding emission cuts, says Saran

New Delhi, Nov 29 (PTI) India Sunday said there was no
question of taking any binding carbon emission cuts,
indicating the coordinated approach major emerging economies
including Beijing and New Delhi are likely to adopt at the
climate change summit in Copenhagen, which is just a week
away.

"There cannot be any emission cuts... that is what we
have said and this is also which is something what the
developed countries have said...
"that they (industrialised nations) don't expect
countries like India, actually to sign on to emission
reduction target but rather to sign to a deviation from
business as usual," the country's top climate negotiator Saran
told a private channel, NDTV, at Port of Spain.
Saran's views have come a day after India and China
along with other developing nations forged a common front to
put a pressure on the developed nations at the UN summit that
begins from December 7.
Saran dismissed notions that there was any pressure on
India to taken on legal emission cuts at the forthcoming meet
and instead referred to various voluntarily steps taken by it
whether it was in terms of renewable energy or improvement
in energy efficiency.
The steps have actually added up to a very major
contribution to the global efforts on mitigation, the special
envoy to Indian Prime Minister on Climate Change noted.
He maintained that, "it is a question how this
(mitigation steps) has to be reflected at Copenhagen. And what
we have stated is that we are in a position to reflect
whatever we are doing in the form of our national
communication to the UN Framework on Climate Change (UNFCCC)."
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