Carbon pricing: a game changer for industry from Paris CSE says Paris deal a minimum compromise
Rich nations will continue to operate in business in their usual manners, making the developing world reduce emissions for them. SUNITA NARAIN, Director, Centre for Science and Environement
PARIS: Indian NGO Centre for Science and Environment on Sunday said the Paris climate agreement was a “compromise” deal that can be termed as minimum denominator since it will lead the world to 3 to 3.5 degree temperature rise to pre-industrial levels by the turn of the the century.
The agreement’s long term goal is two degrees Celsius, with an aim to achieve 1.5 degrees.
Sunita Narain, director general of CSE, said that many details were left out for the future of developing countries – India will have to fight for this over the next 10 years. “Not much enhancement in ambition will happen in the next 10 years and the developing countries have not committed any significant finance or emission cuts before 2020 ” she said torical responsibility’ of rich nations to fight climate change has been erased; this weakens the obligations of developed countries to act due to their past emissions. “Without historical responsibility, equity can now be interpreted only through the words ‘respective capabilities’ of the original CBDR-RC phrase” added Chandra Bhushan, CSE deputy director general.
As a victory for India, the CSE said, it got equity and common but differentiated responsibilities along with terms like climate jus tice, sustainable development and consumption included. But none of these words are in the opera tional parts of the text, leaving no commitment for them in future.
An Indian network of 141 civil society organizations, Climate Action Network for South Asia (CANSA), termed the agree ment “durable and dynamic” but claimed it had fallen short on being fully “fair and responsive”