2ND LD CLIMATE 3 LST

Efforts to reach a climate change deal in Copenhagen
have receded further with a new draft text of a potential
treaty reflecting the deep divisions between developed and
developing countries and a consensus on all major issues
remaining elusive.
Most of the bitterly debated issues like goal for
emission cut, mitigation targets for developed countries,
nationally mitigation actions for developing countries and
rules for monitoring these actions, peaking of emissions,
consideration for atmospheric space and long-term goal for
finances remain unresolved, as per the new draft.
Delegates warned if a treaty was not negotiated, a
draft treaty may be dropped at the last moment to ensure that
the talks do not fail – an option India is completely against.
India already has several concerns over the original
draft treaty that was released by the Chair of the Working
Group of Long Term Cooperative Action (LCA), which is one of
the tracks of negotiations along with the Working Group on
Kyoto Protocol.
India will not accept three provisions which are in
the first draft that was tabled by the United Nations Working
group, Ramesh has said but was willing to use the draft as a
starting point for further negotiations.
Ramesh told journalists that most of the troubling
provisions were the product of division in the Alliance of
Small Inland States (AOSIS) and India was engaging with them
to resolve their differences. PTI