The Copenhagen Accord set a broad goal of limiting global warming to two degrees celsius but did not specify the staging points for achieving this goal or a year by which greenhouse gas emissions should peak.
The accord was a non-binding document crafted by a small group of countries, including the BASIC nations, on the final day of the talks as the meeting faced collapse.
Instead, countries are being urged to identify what actions they intend to take, either as binding curbs on emissions or voluntary action. A total of $US28 billion ($A31.06 billion) in aid have been pledged by rich countries for 2010-2012.
As recriminations continue over December’s summit, the United Nations’ climate change forum is due to resume shortly with a ministerial-level meeting planned in Mexico at the end of the year.
The four emerging economies – a key bloc within troubled negotiations on how to tackle global warming – lobbied successfully at the Copenhagen meeting in December against binding emissions caps.
Many emerging nations say they will not allow emissions targets to be imposed at the cost of economic development.
Emerging nations pledge climate unity
AFP
Environment ministers from Brazil, South Africa, India and China said on Sunday that talks in New Delhi had further cemented their alliance following the Copenhagen climate change summit.
Speaking after Sunday’s talks, Indian Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said the group, known by the acronym BASIC,fake ugg, had pledged to strengthen its unified stance but added it “seeks consensus with developed countries”.
Speaking at a press conference on Saturday,classic timberland boots, the head of the UN’s climate science panel, RK Pachauri, expressed hope that the BASIC nations would soon offer some chance of a binding pact in the future.
The four ministers meeting in Delhi also issued a joint statement calling for rapid distribution of the $US10 billion ($A11 billion) that wealthy countries pledged for tackling climate change in the developing world during 2010.
“We will deepen our cooperation,” Ramesh said, praising the “crucial role” the four countries had played in creating the widely criticised Copenhagen Accord.
The money must be made available at once “as proof of their commitment to urgently address the global challenge of climate change”, the ministers said.
Sunday’s meeting came ahead of a January 31 deadline for countries to say if they intended to be “associated” with the Copenhagen outcome or what sort of measures they envisaged taking.