|
The Government has rejected recent bids to link trade to climate change and it has said that countries like India would not take it if industrialised nations tried to use climate change to curb trade.
India rejected all attempts to push developing countries to reduce their emissions by linking it with trade, Prime Minister's special envoy Shyam Saran said.
“Countries like India are saying sorry it's not a trade issue. Environment can not be used as a trade issue,” Saran said, adding that developing countries could not pass on their obligation or impose conditionalities on developed countries.
This was his reactions to EU bids and attempts made more recently by Japan to link trade issue with climate change. “There is no even playing field (for India) even to begin with. There has to be distinction between lifestyle emission and survival emissions. We are also talking to China, Brazil and South Africa on these issues,” Saran said. (Source: Economic Times)
May 7, 2008
|
