He said, on the contrary, it was the developed countries that were guilty of not honouring their legal commitments of bringing down their emissions to levels prescribed under the Kyoto Protocol.

“The developed countries are under pressure, because they have not fulfilled their commitments. And in an attempt to deflect that pressure, they are demanding that countries like India and China must also undertake emission-cut targets,” he said, pointing out that there was an attempt by some of the developed countries to start afresh in the endeavour to reduce greenhouse gases.

“But what happens to their unfulfilled commitments? The amounts that they were legally committed to reduce but haven’t reduced must be added on to their fresh commitments,” Saran said.