Equity, burden sharing and mitigation targets by Chandra Bhushan presented at the South Asian Media Briefing on Climate Change, CSE, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, 24

This document contains the summary of the BASIC meeting of Climate Experts on equitable access to carbon space and issues related to trade policy and climate change, at Tianjin during 9-10 Oct.2010.

Even as the world contemplates stronger action to reduce CO2 emissions to prevent catastrophic climate change, how this goal can be accomplished equitably has become central to the debate. This paper presents an analytical framework to encompass the existing contributions to the literature on equity in climate change.

The statement by Mr Jairam Ramesh, Minister of Environment & Forests at 7th MEF meeting, Rome, 29-30th June, 2010. He stressed on the need for interlinking MRV of climate mitigating actions to ensure that developing nations have "equitable" access to carbon space.

The conference on