Press release - January 24, 2010
New Delhi, January 24,2010: "Greenpeace welcomes the position
taken by the Ministers of the BASIC group that met today in New
Delhi to continue negotiations on a fair and ambitious climate
agreement within the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
However Greenpeace wants to insist to the BASIC countries that such
an agreement also needs to be legally binding in order to ensure
its implementation.
Greenpeace is encouraged by the willingness of the BASIC group
to support vulnerable countries, both by ensuring their
participation in open and transparent negotiations and by providing
technological and or financial support. However Greenpeace calls
upon the BASIC countries to make this support more tangible by its
next meeting in April.
Greenpeace also notes the further consolidation of the BASIC
countries as a group and calls upon these countries to ensure they
take the responsibility that comes along with the renewed power
from their alliance. Greenpeace expects these countries to
demonstrate leadership, both in furthering negotiations on a fair,
ambitious and legally binding agreement, and in terms of both
pushing industrialized counties to urgently reduce greenhouse gas
emissions and making their own appropriate contributions in
emission reductions, in order to avoid dangerous climate
change."
For further information, contact:
Siddharth Pathak, Climate and Energy Policy Officer, Greenpeace
India
Tel: +91 99 0288 3738
E-mail: 
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