They complain unfair trade rules are being imposed, thinly veiled as climate protection initiatives.
“Of late, unilateral measures have appeared on the international scene that clearly constitute disguised restrictions on international trade," Jayanthi Natarajan, India's minister of state for environment and forestry, told a recent gathering in New Delhi.
Speaking at a workshop organised by the New Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), Natarajan said developed nations are protective of their own domestic industries, while pushing emerging economies like India and China to take more action to cut their emissions.
“The impact of their actions on (their) domestic industry and particular sectors is sought to be protected at the cost of the global goals of stabilising the climate," she said.
Natarajan - who is leading the Indian delegation at the Nov. 28-Dec. 9 U.N. climate summit in Durban, South Africa - said India will put three main issues on the agenda at the talks: trade actions, equal treatment of historical emissions and technology transfers. Read the full report here.
Source: by Amantha Perera, Alertnet, New Delhi.
