The Cabinet on Thursday cleared the red-lines for Union environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan and her team of negotiators for the UN talks.
With the European Union (EU) shifting the goal post yet again for ratifying the Kyoto Protocol's second phase (KP2), which is to start next year, the Cabinet approved the environment ministry's proposal as endorsed by the external affairs ministry to push for operationlizing the protocol that puts binding targets on developed countries to cut their greenhouse gas emissions.
Last year at Durban talks the EU had agreed to operationlize the Kyoto Protocol as a trade-off against the start of talks for a new post-2020 global climate regime. But this year, it shifted the goalpost again, and instead demanded that emerging countries first agree to a framework for the new regime before it kick-starts KP2.
In the closed door talks as a run-up to Doha round of negotiations, the EU had expressed its inability to even make a provisional ratification of the protocol in time.
Natarajan briefed the Cabinet about the state of play within the UN climate talks, and also explained how the developed world was attempting to make the poor countries pay twice for the same bargain.
Sources at the meeting said she was supported by Union communications and information technology minister Kapil Sibal and the finance minister P Chidambaram. Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia suggested a flexible negotiating strategy, but the concern was settled in Natarajan's favour, thanks to PM Manmohan Singh's seal of approval.
The Cabinet has also decided that any new obligation to reduce emissions through 'supplementary actions' should only be undertaken in adherence to the existing UN climate conventions and on availability of funds and technologies.
Now, the Cabinet has empowered Natarajan to secure an unconditional operationalizing of KP2 without conceding to more issues of national importance.
The government has reiterated the earlier stand that equity, IPR and unilateral trade actions remain firmly embedded in the talks even as negotiations move on to shaping the post-2020 regime and close the other parallel tracks - Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA)
India is expected to work closely with the G77 plus China group, the BASIC formation and the new configuration called the Like Minded Developing Countries - a forum of 15-20 stronger developing economies.
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