BASIC countries should involve other countries over Copenhagen accord: Pachauri
January 23rd, 2010 - 8:56 pm ICT by IANSNew Delhi, Jan 23 (IANS) Rajendra Pachauri, head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Saturday said that environment ministers of BASIC countries should come up with a clear plan to involve other countries in agreeing to the Copenhagen Accord.
Environment ministers of Brazil, South Africa, India and China (BASIC) are meeting here Sunday to chalk out their post-Copenhagen climate strategy.
“I would expect the BASIC countries to come with a clear plan which can involve the other countries of the world who were left out of basic elements of this accord,” Pachauri told reporters here.
He said the meeting should provide some directions on how the world might come up with a legally binding agreement in Mexico City, which will host the next climate summit this year.
“It is not enough to just come up with this accord and leave it suspended. You got to use this as a basis by which we have to get a firm agreement from Mexico,” he said.
On postponement of the United Nations January deadline for countries to submit their climate change mitigation commitments, Pachauri said: “If the UN has decided to postpone this deadline I think it’s a practical necessity because countries are really not at a stage where they would be able to provide commitments voluntarily or otherwise.”
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