The India Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh on sunday expressed
disappointment over the recently concluded climate Change Accord at the
Copenhagen Summit last December.
In an address at the 97th Indian Science Congresss, he talked on the need
for all countries to move on to a low-carbon economy.
Also speaking to the media in Thiruvananthapuram, the Minister pointed
out his concerns saying that the nations of the world should move to a low
greenhouse gas submissions and energy efficient development path."
The Copenhagen summit is an international meeting with Heads of States
from nations in Asia, Latin America, Africa and North America to negotiate
and agree on pressing global and climate issues. Unfortunalely, with the
recently concluded summit, the Heads of States did not come to an
agreement on green house emissions and climate change.
However, China and Indonesia have hailed the Copenhagen climate summit and
its outcome. Beijing's foreign minister said it was a new beginning. And
Indonesia's leader said he was pleased with the result.
United States President, Barack Obama on “PBS NewsHour,” said: " I think
that people are justified in being disappointed about the outcome in
Copenhagen ......It didn’t move us the way we need to”. “The science says
that we’ve got to significantly reduce emissions over the next over the
next 40 years. There’s nothing in the Copenhagen agreement that ensures
that happens".
Mr. Alden Meyer, Director of Strategy and Policy for the Union of
Concerned Scientists, said: “ The Copenhagen Accord is clearly a work in
progress, with key details such as the emissions reduction targets for
industrialized countries and emissions mitigation actions of developing
countries to be filled in later. It is also a voluntary framework, with
negotiations to continue in 2010 toward a legally binding instrument that
would either accompany or supersede the Kyoto Protocol".Doniger, a policy
director of the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental group,
wrote on the blog 'Switchboard': Further reports reveal that, the
Copenhagen Accord seeks to limit the increase in global temperature to 2
degree celsius. It pledges $30 billion between 2010 and 2012 and $100
billion by 2020 for countries especially developing countries, to help
assist them adapt to the effects of climate change.
David Doniger, a policy director of the Natural Resources Defense Council,
wrote on the blog “Switchboard” that: "The Copenhagen climate deal broke
through years of negotiating gridlock to achieve three critical goals.
First, to provide real cuts in heat-trapping carbon pollution by all of
the world’s big emitters. Second, it establishes a transparent framework
for evaluating countries’ performance against their commitments. And
third, it will start an unprecedented flow of resources to help poor and
vulnerable nations cope with climate impacts, protect their forests and
adopt clean energy technologies".
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