Copenhagen deal weak,deeply ambiguous: CPM

countries,it,at least,provides some way of keeping future negotiations going along the current twin tracks.

Without this,the failure of the conference could have meant the collapse of the Climate Treaty and the Kyoto framework,the party said. “However,the Accord is extremely weak in terms of the deep and immediate emission cuts by developed countries that are required to tackle climate change. It is deeply ambiguous with several loopholes and the possibility of different interpretations,particularly with regard to emission cuts by developing countries,and fund and technology transfers,” the CPM Politburo said.

Against this backdrop,India should ensure that the “red lines” committed by the government in Parliament are adhered to during future negotiations,it said.

While the CPM virtually applauded the hard bargaining India did along with the BASIC countries,it took a swipe at the government for announcing unilateral cuts in carbon intensity even before the negotiations began. “We had warned the government that unilateral concessions before the negotiations,and without conditional linkages to deep cuts by developed countries,would not yield results. This is indeed what has happened,” it said.

The CPM said while the US and its allies tried to kill the Kyoto Protocol itself and pressurise the developing countries to take on the major burden of reducing emissions,they could not achieve success because of the stiff and united resistance put up by the developing countries.