Jairam Ramesh Minister of State for Environment and Forrest at the Day 2 of DSDS 2011
Special Adress by Jairam Ramesh speaking about the roadmap from Cancun to Durban
Cancun was a politically correct move because it gave a platform to negotiate but from the environmental point of view it wasn’t so successful. Cancun provided a platform for Durban and a template for actionable points and eight major issues: shared vision of all the nations, adaptation, mitigation, forestry, biodiversity, market mechanism, finance and technology development.
It is time now we stop interpreting Cancun, and start implementing it. There is a need to improve the quality of the forrest and not just look at the quantity. We need extensive research to develop clean fuel. India has levied tax of about roughly 1 dollar on feuls such as coal, gas, oil and the revenue generated from this is going to be used for research. A team of 250 scientists spread across 128 research institutes are working on climate change research.
Delhi Sustainable Development Summit (DSDS) 2011 