China and India
signal progresso on transparency
The
world's two largest emerging economies both respond positively
to a call from US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton. "We
are 75 percent underway with a solution," says Indian
minister.
Morten Andersen - 18/12/2009 - Both China and India are
prepared to give the international community more insight
into their national measures to mitigate climate change.
As US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, assured Thursday
that the US is onboard a solution for financing for the
developing world, she also attached conditions to the offer.
Particularly that China - the world's biggest emitter -
and other large emerging economies would accept independent
scrutiny of their commitments to limit emissions over the
coming decade.
"If
there is not even a commitment to some sort of transparency,
then that’s kind of a deal-breaker for us. There has
to be a commitment to transparency." Hillary Clinton
told a press conference, according to Times Online.
Several
media report China ready to let its climate measures be
subject to outside verification.
According
to the Los Angeles Times, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister
He Yafei told reporters at a news conference that his government
is open to "dialogue and cooperation that is not intrusive,
that does not infringe on China's sovereignty."
Times
Online quotes Indian Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh
as saying that Hillary Clinton's offer "demonstrates
a seriousness on the part of the Americans to recognize
that financing is a crucial element of climate change"
and that the question of monitoring, reporting and verification
(MRV) of emerging economy emissions is close to a solution.
"I'm
sure that we will be able to arrive at a mutually acceptable
solution to this MRV, the MRV issue which the Americans
are raising in relation to China, India, Brazil and South
Africa. We have a 75 percent solution, we just need to find
the 25 percent," Jairam Ramesh says.
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