Although climate change summit has failed with little progress, it showed rare unity of purpose between India and China. Together they took on the industrialized world at the closing moments of the climate summit. The Indian position also received support from Pakistan.

 

Knowing that developing countries had failed to get the industrialized world to part with even one extra percent of their profits from carbon trade, India started the note of dissent at the final session of the Dec 1-12 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

 

Earlier industrialized countries led by the European Union, Japan, Canada, Australia and Russia had refused to part with the money sought by developing countries to help them cope with climate change effects.

 

Prodipto Ghosh, member of the Prime Minister's Council on Climate Change, rose on a point of order in the final open session of the Conference of Parties (CoP). This stand was unequivocally supported by Chinese delegate along with delegates from Pakistan, Gabon, Colombia, the Maldives and a number of other developing countries. Thus the Poznan climate summit reiterated that over climate change virtually the entire developing world is together.

 

Earlier CoP president and Poland's Environment Minister Maciej Nowicki had announced that an ‘Adaptation Fund’ that would provide money to least developed countries (LDC) to cope with climate change effects has become operational at the Poznan summit.

 

But the fund now has less than one percent of the money developing countries need to cope with climate change effects, as estimated by the UN Development Programme. Its funding comes from a two percent levy on money that industrialized countries make through carbon trading. Developing countries wanted to raise this two percent levy to three percent to help put more money into the Adaptation Fund. Industrialized countries refused.