India Reaches Out To Small Island Nations On Climate Change
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First published in Sanctuary Asia,
Vol. 30
No. 9,
September 2010
The Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) had asked emerging economies like India and China to take legally binding cuts on carbon emissions at the Copenhagen conference last year.
Noting that AOSIS clearly wants India and China, Brazil and South Africa to take on much more ambitious mitigation requirements, Ramesh told PTI: "The whole idea of meeting the AOSIS group was to convey to them that we are sensitive to their concerns.. We have a peninsular India in which 300 million people live in vulnerable coastal areas." In fact, a central component of Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh's trip to New York this week was to reach out to Small Island States on the climate issue. Read the full report here.
Source: Deccan Herald.
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