Re: Release.......pt1

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 12:33 PM, PIB Calcutta <pib.calcutta@gmail.com> wrote:

Press Information Bureau
Government of India
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Ministry of Environment and Forests
India's Position On Climate Change Issues

India Announced National Action Plan on Climate Change
New Delhi: July 6, 2009

India has put forward its own perspective on Climate Change issues and
how it should be tackled.It is baseless to state that India's negative
attitude is holding up negotiations by raising objections to proposals
from other countries, and it has not put forward any of its own ideas
on what the Copenhagen package should look like.

It is India's view that the planetary atmospheric space is a common
resource of humanity and each citizen of the globe has an equal
entitlement to that space. The principle of equity, therefore,implies
that, over a period of time, there should be a convergence in per
capita emissions. Any global Climate Change regime which results in
merely freezing of the huge divergence in per capita emissions, will
not be acceptable on grounds of equity. Furthermore, in tackling the
challenge of Climate Change, both production and consumption patterns
need to be addressed, with a willingness to address lifestyle issues.

India believes that Climate Change, which we all agree is an
extraordinary challenge, deserves an extraordinary response. All
countries of the world, developed and developing, need to join in a
collaborative effort, to bringabout a strategic shift, across the
globe, from production and consumption patterns based on carbon-based
fossil fuels to those based on renewable energy and non-carbon fuels.
We should devise a global package which;

(a) commits developed countries to significant reductions in their GHG
emissions; (b) achieves the widest possible dissemination at
affordable costs of existing climate-friendly technologies and
practices; and (c) puts in place a collaborative R&D effort among
developed and major developing countries, to bring about
cost-effective technological innovations and transformational
technologies, that can put the world on the road to a carbon-free
economy.

Such a package will go beyond market mechanisms and competitive
economic models.

The Indian approach will require appropriate handling of the IPR
issue, since widest possible dissemination will require existing
climate-friendly technologies and goods to be made available,
especially to developing countries, as public goods. Competitive
bidding for such technologies, financed through multilateral funds,
could be used to avoid loss to the innovators. The collaborative R&D
effort could be similarly funded through a multilateral fund under the
UNFCCC with its products being available as public goods, enabling
rapid and widespread dissemination. India, like other major developing
countries, would be willing to be an active participant in any such
initiative. It would also be necessary to provide for large-scale
capacity building, particularly in developing countries, to enable
successful absorption and application of climate-friendly
technologies. A Copenhagen package incorporating these components,
with an accompanying multilateral financing package, would be an
outcome worthy of a concerned global citizenry.

India has made written submissions to the UNFCCC on each of the
following issues being considered in the negotiations, as a
constructive contribution to negotiations. These are;

(i) Submission on Long Term Co-operative Action, (ii) Submission on
enhancing action on Adaptation, (iii) Financing Architecture for
Mitigation Financial Commitments Under the UNFCCC, (iv) Submission on
Technology Transfer Mechanism, (v) Submission on Mitigation Actions of
Developing Countries under Paragraph 1 (b) (ii) of theBali Action Plan
(BAP), (vi) Submission on Measurement, Reporting and Verification
(MRV)- under BAP 1 (b) (i), (vii) Submission on Reduced Deforestation
in Developing countries (REDD), Sustainable Forest Management (SFM),
and Afforestation And Reforestation (A&R), under the BAP, (viii)
Submission on Nationally Appropriate Actions of Developing Countries,
and (ix) Submission on financing Flows (Why Financial Contributions to
the Financial Mechanism of the UNFCCC cannot be under the Paradigm of
"Aid").

More submissions will be made as the negotiations proceed. India has
also joined together with G 77* + China partners to make several
constructive contributions to the ongoing multilateral negotiations.

G77 The Group of 77 (G-77) was established on 15 June 1964 by
seventy-seven developing countries signatories of the "Joint
Declaration of the Seventy-Seven Countries" issued at the end of the
first session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and
Development (UNCTAD) in Geneva. Beginning with the first "Ministerial
Meeting of the Group of 77 in Algiers (Algeria) on 10 – 25 October
1967, which adopted the Charter of Algiers", a permanent institutional
structure gradually developed which led to the creation of Chapters of
the Group of 77 with Liaison offices in Geneva (UNCTAD), Nairobi
(UNEP), Paris (UNESCO), Rome (FAO/IFAD), Vienna (UNIDO), and the Group
of 24 (G-24) in Washington, D.C. (IMF and World Bank). Although the
members of the G-77 have increased to 130 countries, the original name
was retained because of its historic significance.

Aims: The Group of 77 is the largest intergovernmental organization of
developing states in the United Nations, which provides the means for
the countries of the South to articulate and promote their collective
economic interests and enhance their joint negotiating capacity on all
major international economic issues within the United Nations system,
and promote South-South cooperation for development.

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