India and China strengthened position on climate change

New Delhi: Best worked up in the argue are expected to dominate the UN summit on climate change at Copenhagen with developing nations coming with their own draft to pre-empt developed nations' likely move to insist on binding carbon emission cuts.
Today’s China and India besides other key and developing nations have done is consolidating their position anchored in the UN Framework on Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) ahead of the climate meet," a senior government official said about the recent two-day talks in Beijing. The countries had said they had reached an agreement on major issues, including the need for the West to provide finance and technology to help developing nations combat global warming. The special envoy to the Prime Minister on climate change, speaks about pressures on India and China to cut emissions. India is willing to sign on to an ambitious global target for emission reduction or limiting temperature increase if it is accompanied by an equitable burden-sharing paradigm. The historical and cultural links between China and India, and hoping for promoting and the development. Today’s Sirish Sinha, who heads the climate change division in World Wildlife Fund too opined that there was no obligation on India to reduce cuts and the Beijing statement speaks of the coordinated approach the developing nations would take at the meet. We have shown that India is prepared to do a lot like mitigation action which is a voluntary choice," he added. Prabhat Upadhyaya, a researcher from Teri said it is a signal to the G-77 nations that developing countries are together and that they will stick together at the negotiation table.