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Positive outcome expected from conference on climate

NEW DELHI: The Chairman of the Nobel Peace Prize winning Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change, R.K. Pachauri, has expressed confidence that the coming thirteenth Conference of Parties to the International Framework Convention on Climate (COP 13) would have a positive outcome.

He said he was confident that the Conference could help in setting out a road map for the period beyond 2010, when the Kyoto Protocol comes to an end. “In the past, several delegations had had a negative approach. Now, they could be supporting the dialogue on climate change issues, at the least,” he said. Several world leaders would participate in the discussions at the Conference, including the Prime Minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, who shared the Noble Peace Prize with IPCC.

Asked what India’s stand should be at the conference, particularly in the context of repeated efforts of by the developed countries to get India and other developing nations to also take on some commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, he made it clear that time was had not yet come for India and other developing countries to take on commitments. Noting that the steps implemented by developed countries to meet their obligations for reducing the emissions were “totally inadequate,” he said that India and other developing countries, however, need to take some action to reduce their emissions for their own benefit. “We have to be doing something for local reasons and not because of any obligations to the rest of the world or for global compulsions.”

Among other things, there was a need for more action on the adaptation front, to prepare the world to face sea level rise and other impacts of climate change.

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