Jairam Ramesh, Activists Differ Over India's Cancun Gains

The UN climate summit reached the Cancun Agreement early Saturday - but there was no mention of the extent to which industrialised countries would commit to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions after 2012, when the Kyoto Protocol's commitment period ends.

The agreement says that developing countries will have to take 'nationally appropriate actions' to curb their emissions by 2020. Hence, developing nations don't have to take targeted emission cuts like their developed counterparts. Read the full report here.

Source: Sify News, New Delhi.