As the applause died down at the Moon Palace in the early morning on Saturday bringing the 16th annual climate change conference at Cancun to a close, the sense of achievement over the Cancun Agreements was replaced with a realisation that the road to Durban was going to be a difficult one.
Durban will host the annual UN climate change conference in 2011.
Will India give away too much at the Cancun climate summit?To many analysts and experts, the Conference of Parties (COP) 16 or the United Nations Climate Change Conference at Cancun in Mexico appears doomed even before it starts.
Cancun: The climate talks at Cancun hit a bad logjam on Monday night with Japan and AOSIS (Association of Small Island Countries) demanding that India and other developing countries get bound into international emission reduction commitments before they allow Kyoto Protocol to continue or the long-term deal to proceed.
India and China took a joint and strong position against the blackmail a
Cancun: The Wikileaks cablegate hit the climate talks at Cancun as well with leaked documents showing how the US and EU had attempted to manipulate talks in favour of the Copenhagen Accord by offering monetary carrots to small countries that are the most vulnerable to climate change and cutting aid to those who dared to oppose them.
Several countries had talked of dirty tricks played by ric
Delays By Cabinet On Major Decisions Led To Confusion
Cancun: The Indian team in Mexico carried on their business for a week at the climate negotiations without a clear mandate from the government.
