Making a strong intervention during a key meeting, Indian environment and climate change minister Prakash Javadekar said, "We are here to enhance the implementation of the convention, certainly not to re-write it".
He referred to the attempt of EU and non-EU rich countries including the US (called Umbrella Group) to bring out a new phrase of "evolving CBDR" where they pitch for changing the "historical responsibility" clause and categorization of countries in terms of their wealth that actually make them accountable for emission cuts and burden sharing.
The CBDR (common but differentiated responsibility) clause makes it mandatory for rich nations (annex countries) to cut emissions because developing countries (non-annexe countries) are not the "historical polluters" nor they have the capacity to pay for the past sins of the developed world.
Javadekar said, "The decision on Durban Platform mandated that the new agreement shall be 'under the convention'. Therefore, the new agreement has to be in full accordance with all the principles and provisions of the Framework Convention. It cannot be in contravention with and cannot undermine the Convention.
"We believe that the developing country parties will put forth their best efforts in accordance with their resources and capacity. Fulfillment of commitments and promises to provide enhanced financial and technological support for developing countries is crucial and will enable them to scale up their efforts and help in realizing our global goal".
Emphasizing the role of rich nations, the minister in his intervention said, "It is important to ensure that there is no slackening of the mitigation ambition of the developed country parties in the pre- and post-2020 period".
India and other developing countries have, in fact, been asking the rich countries to fulfill their pre-2020 promise so that the rest of the world can trust them about their post-2020 commitment which would be reflected in the global climate deal in Paris late next year.
He said, "My negotiators have told me about a new phrase of 'evolving CBDR' that seems to have surfaced in their negotiations from certain quarters. There are other ideas floating as well. We also have our own ideas. But this is neither the right time nor the process to discuss these issues".
He said, "The need at this stage is to ensure that we have an ambitious, comprehensive, equitable and balanced agreement in 2015 that takes into account the huge development needs including access to financial resources and low carbon technological options for developing countries".
Referring to the suspicion among developing nations that the rich and influential groups may try to push their points through co-chairs of the meeting at the last moment, Javadekar made it clear that the countries would only be able to successfully negotiate a text that is "party driven and inclusive" (means the countries would not agree to something which will be imposed on them from the chairs of the negotiations).
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