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New Delhi The Indian forest cover has shrunk. And there is no one to announce the data, as environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan has not found time to release it.

The silence is in tune with the way the ministry of environment and forests has worked in the last five months after the new minister took over. The release of the India State of Forest Report-2011 was deferred in December. Natarajan is yet to set a date for the release of the report, a key component of macro-economic policy-making for the government and the industry. Natarajan has maintained her silence even after returning from the ministerial level climate change conference at Durban in early December.

The Durban conference in December 2011 marked a breakthrough in international efforts to combat climate change.

India will not sign any legally binding global agreement for emissions reduction, as the country needs to eradicate poverty through economic growth, Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan said tod

The government on Tuesday clarified that India will not sign any legally-binding global agreement for emission reduction.

Union environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan informed the Rajya Sabha that the country will not be signing any legally-binding norms as the country needs to eradicate poverty through economic growth.

India will not sign any legally binding global agreement for emissions reduction, as the country needs to eradicate poverty through economic growth, Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan said on Tuesday.

“There is no question of signing a legally binding agreement at this point of our development. We need to make sure that our development does not suffer,” Ms. Natarajan said in Rajya Sabha.

In 1990, China was responsible for only 10% of annual emissions. But in 2010, it contributed some 27%