Lima hunt for balanced clean-air solution

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LIMA: With countries here negotiating crucial points in the run up to next year's global climate agreement, India has made a strong pitch for weightage to "adaptation" measures in the new deal and sought a "goal for adaptation" like the "goal for mitigation" (emission cuts) in the new agreement.

India's demand came even as rich nations remain obsessed with "mitigation" efforts and goals. They believe setting "adaptation" targets would increase their burden of helping poorer nations with finance and technology transfer.

Amid indications that the country wouldn't announce its peaking year like China and would come out with its target only by June 2015, India declared: "Adaptation is critical to the country's development" model in view of climate change -a narrative which gained prominence after the NDA took office.

Without denying the importance of "mitigation" in facing climate-change challenges, India sought to include "adaptation" in the new agreement in a "balanced" manner.

In a submission to a `contact group' on adaptation here, Indian delegation head Susheel Kumar said: "When we say balance, it's not only political parity with mitigation. It is total parity -financial flow or allocations, legally binding status, technology transfer or sense of urgency and commitments".He emphasized: "We'd like a long-term global goal for adaptation...in qualitative and quantitative terms".

This is significant given India's position that the new treaty focuses more on "adaptation", not "mitigation" because poorer countries need to grow, which would lead to unavoidable emissions.

India wants rich countries to play a major role in mitigation, whereas adaptation efforts may compulsorily be made by every country with mandatory financial and technological support from developed nations.

Referring to a para in the draft text which talks of enhancing support to developing countries, Kumar said: "India would suggest amending this para to show that adaptation is a global commitment to be met by each country ."

He referred to India's recent initiative of establishing a National Adaptation Fund for financial, technical and capacity-building support at national and state level for adaptation activities.

India is likely to present its points on adaptation more forcefully at the high-level segment of the climate talks next week after Union environment and climate change minister Prakash Javadekar reaches here.


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