{"id":20010473,"date":"2015-05-20T11:46:39","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T06:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thethirdpole.net\/?p=10473"},"modified":"2020-11-17T20:56:30","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T15:26:30","slug":"india-china-underline-importance-of-climate-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/climate\/india-china-underline-importance-of-climate-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"India, China underline importance of climate talks"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"xi<\/a>India and China have underlined the importance of climate change to their nations by coming up with a separate joint statement during Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s visit to Beijing last week. For China\u2019s President Xi Jinping, this is the second major announcement on climate change, following the joint statement during US President Barack Obama\u2019s visit to Beijing last November.<\/p>\n

The joint statement by China and India \u2013 currently the world\u2019s largest and third largest greenhouse gas (GHG) polluters respectively \u2013 assumes significance because it indicates what will persuade these emerging economies to take on significant GHG emission control measures after 2020.<\/p>\n

At the end of Modi\u2019s trip to China, Mongolia and South Korea, a senior official who had helped draft the joint statement<\/a> told thethirdpole.net<\/a>, \u201cWe have made it as clear as we can in diplomatic language \u2013 if developed countries want us to take strong measures after 2020 under the Paris treaty, they will have to start putting their money where their mouths are.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDeveloped country governments will have to significantly raise their contributions to the Green Climate Fund right now and all the way to 2020, by which time they should be paying US$100 billion a year, as they had promised way back in 2009.\u201d The official was speaking on the condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n

While this message is clear, the language of the May 15 joint statement is more conciliatory than used by Indian and Chinese delegates during past sessions of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change<\/a> (UNFCCC), when they have repeatedly pointed out that most of the extra GHG in the atmosphere \u2013 which is causing climate change \u2013 has been put there by developed nations since the start of the Industrial Age.<\/p>\n

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During his recent trip to China Modi visited Xian, the eastern terminus of the old\u00a0Silk Road invoking\u00a0the powerful cultural links between the two countries\u00a0 (Photo: Twitter)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Instead of referring to that once more, the joint statement says climate change \u201cneeds to be addressed through international cooperation in the context of sustainable development.\u201d It also refers to the 2010 memorandum of understanding between the two governments on cooperation on green technologies and promises to further cooperation in this area.<\/p>\n

This is followed by the more traditional hard-line approach. While expressing full support to the success of the Paris conference scheduled later this year, the two governments have reaffirmed \u201cthat the 2015 agreement shall be in full accordance with the principles, provisions and structure of the UNFCCC, in particular the principles of equity and common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities, reflecting different historical responsibilities, development stages and national circumstances between developed and developing countries.\u201d<\/p>\n

As the official pointed out, the meat of the joint statement comes after this, where it says that India and China \u201curged the developed countries to raise their pre-2020 emission reduction targets and honour their commitment to provide US$100 billion per year by 2020 to developing countries.\u201d<\/p>\n

Domestic action<\/strong><\/p>\n

The joint statement adds, \u201cAs the two biggest developing countries, China and India are undertaking ambitious actions domestically on combating climate change through plans, policies and measures on mitigation and adaptation despite the enormous scale of their challenges in terms of social and economic development and poverty eradication.\u201d<\/p>\n

During Obama\u2019s visit last November, in a joint statement<\/a> China said it intended to peak its GHG emissions by 2030.<\/p>\n

The current roadmap towards the Paris climate treaty is dependent on what individual countries will do on their own to combat climate change.<\/p>\n

With reference to that, the May 15 joint statement said, \u201cChina and India are fully engaged in their domestic preparations for their respective intended nationally determined contributions (INDCs) in the context of the 2015 agreement and will communicate their INDCs as early as possible and well before the Paris Conference.\u201d<\/p>\n

Observers happy<\/strong><\/p>\n

Environmentalists who have been tracking climate negotiations were reasonably happy with the India-China joint statement, since they read in it a willingness by both countries to be flexible in their differentiation between the commitments of developed and developing countries. This has been one of the major sticking points in the negotiations, but observers who are used to reading between the lines said China and India may now be more willing than before to consider taking on progressively higher emission control commitments as their economies improved.<\/p>\n

However, the Indian government is unlikely to make any explicit move in this regard before the Paris summit. In a preparatory meeting held in St Petersburg last week, Prakash Javadekar, India\u2019s Minister for Environment, Forests and Climate Change, stuck to the country\u2019s negotiating position of common but differentiated responsibilities. Observers are now watching the next preparatory meeting \u2013 scheduled in Bonn in June \u2013 in case there are more straws in the wind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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