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First week ends on optimism

UN chief calls on India to put forth emission reduction commitments

Agencies
As the first week of the UN climate talks draws to a close, the initial despair has turned to optimism, but there is still a long way to go in terms of finalising key elements for contributions from countries or a draft agreement for Lima.
While the text of the key elements of the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC) and the draft for a Paris agreement are under discussion, developing countries are opposing the mitigation-centric approach of the developed world.
India and other countries are saying that National contributions cannot be mitigation-centric and have to include finance, technology and adaptation aspects. India is also opposed to an external mechanism to review targets it sets under the INDC. The tussle will spill over to the ministerial or high level segment next week. The timeframe of these pledges each country makes is also crucial and has not been debated.
There is controversy over a proposed review mechanism to determine if all pledges by countries were enough to ward off the devastating impacts of a warming world.
Saleemul Huq, director of the
International Centre for Climate Change & Development (ICCCAD), and an adaptation expert, told The Hindu on Friday that the first week of the climate talks had a typical pattern — nothing gets done and the easiest thing for negotiators was to pass it on to the Ministers.
However, he felt there was a positive momentum to the talks and there was an
interest in an agreement. The INDCs allow countries to present their targets, but the key word between Lima and Paris next year to judge the success of how this works was "adequacy," he pointed out.
The questions to ask are: are the targets of each country adequate and are there enough funds? "Everybody needs to do more," he said, and more than agree-
ments on specific texts, "we need more positive momentum on action."
Meanwhile, UN chief Ban Ki-moon has called on India, the world's third-largest emitter, to spell out its nationally determined commitment on reducing emissions by June, saying a "constructive" role played by it will make a universal climate agreement possible in Paris next year.
Against the backdrop of significant announcements by the US and China on limiting greenhouse gases, the secretary general looks to India to also announce its own intended nationally determined commitment (INDCs) by June next year ahead of the 2015 climate conference in Paris where the new universal treaty on climate change will be adopted.
Environment minister Prakash Javedkar will represent the country at the ministerial-level at the UN Climate Change Conference in the Peruvian capital, Lima this week.
Following the US-China announcement last month, Ban had urged "all countries, especially all major economies,” to follow Beijing and Washington's lead and announce ambitious post-2020 targets as soon as possible, but no later than the first quarter of 2015.