WHILE reiterating commitment to the Kyoto Protocol,
India has extended its support for the continuation of the Clean
Development Mechanism (CDM), a flexible mechanism under the Protocol
and has called for further strengthening it.
While
replying to a question in the Lok Sabha today, the Minister of State for
Environment and Forests , Mr Jairam Ramesh, said that the talks for further emission reduction commitments of Annex-I Parties in the
Second Commitment Period (Post 2012) are going on since 2005. India, along
with South Africa and 35 other like-minded countries had earlier submitted
a proposal calling for Annex-I Parties to agree to at least 40% emission
reduction commitment by 2020 as compared to their 1990 levels. There has been
no agreement till date and the negotiations on the targets of Annex-I Parties
for the second commitment period and other relevant issues are going on for
a possible decision at the sixteenth Conference of Parties (COP-16) to the
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and sixth Meeting
of Parties (MOP-6) to the Kyoto Protocol presently being held at Cancun, Mexico.
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