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With just a week left for the Copenhagen Climate Change summit, India has once again reiterated that it will not entertain any sort of compromise in its stand on carbon emission cuts, along with adhering to the preservation of the economic interest of the nation.
New Delhi has expressed its disbelief over the development of a legally binding outcome at the summit. It has also mentioned that it expects very little commitment for developed nations regarding emission cuts.
"At present what we are really negotiating is not how to deal with the climate change, but how we preserve our economic positions and how do we cap trade and promote some of our economic interest”, said Shyam Saran, the special ambassador to Prime Minister on climate change, who was addressing an event organized by CII in New Delhi.
"And when you start mixing up dealing with what is an elemental global threat to humanity with profits and cost calculations or calculations about economic interest, then that leads to nowhere," he said,
He also mentioned that India does not expect any kind of technology or fund transfer for mitigating and adapting to the climate change from developed countries at the Summit.
"Hence, in this scenario we have to safeguard our country's interest," he said, adding that in no way India would take legally binding emission cuts.
