LD CLIMATE 2

"With the provision for international consultations (on
mitigation action), national sovereignty will be respected,"
said Jyoti Parikh, Executive Director, Integrated Research and
Action for Development (IRADe).

However, Desai had a different take on it. "In my opinon,
no," he said when asked whether India's position had been
diluted by it agreeing to enter into 'international
consultations' on its mitigation actions.
"I do not see the word review in the text (of the
Accord)," he said.
"We will have to see how things unfold in the future,"
said Uttam Sinha, Research Fellow at the Institute of Defence
Studies and Analyses.
The Left parties had criticised the Accord alleging that
the world leaders had failed their people by not delivering an
effective and equitable climate change agreement.
"The apprehensions of all poor nations that ultimately a
deal will be imposed by the US has proved correct. It is a
sorry spectacle of succumbing to US pressure," the Communist
Party of India (CPI) said in a statement.
In a similar statement, the Communist Party of
India-Marxist (CPI-M) Politburo had said "the political
leaders who gathered in Copenhagen have failed their people by
not delivering an effective and equitable climate change
agreement."
"Something is better than nothing. We have to move ahead
and cannot confine ourselves in Kyoto Protocol since it was
not encompassing all countries," said B Mahtab, a Biju Janata
Dal (BJD) Member of Indian Parliament who was part of the
Indian delegation to Copenhagen. MORE PTI SKU
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