India will not accept legally-binding domestic emission cuts: Jairam Ramesh
merisarkar news service
New Delhi, December 12, 2009
On the fifth day of Copenhagen meet India has said that it is ready to play constructive role but it can not accept legally binding domestic emission cuts.
India's environment minister Jairam Ramesh asserted that India has announced voluntary domestic measures to tackle global warming. But progress on these will be checked only by the country's Parliament.
In a related development, China and the United States could not agree on key issues ranging from sharing the burden of slashing greenhouse gases, monitoring and climate debt to be paid to the poor nations by the United States.
