India should not sign the Copenhagen Agreement, say leading green pressure group
26th January 2010
The Accord is an extremely weak document, which deliberately forgives industrialised countries’ historical responsibility for climate change and worse, is designed for meaningless and ineffective action to curb global warming. It is a polluters’ accord. It will be disastrous for the fight against climate change and bad for India and the world, said CSE.
The Copenhagen Accord allows industrialised nations to get away with a pledge-and-review system so that they can decide to set weak and inadequate emission reduction targets domestically and not be under international legally binding commitments. Developing nations like India gain nothing, but allow industrialised nations like the US an easy way out,” said Sunita Narain director, CSE, briefing media on the post-Copenhagen developments here Friday.
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