Ahead of the G-20 meeting in Pittsburgh, USA, by the end of this month, ministers of finance from the world’s largest economies are meeting in London today. According to The Times of India, an overview paper from the G-20 secretariat has “ignored India’s submissions and demanded that (India) impose carbon taxation and reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.”
The daily quotes an anonymous “senior Indian official”:
“Despite strong opposition from key developing countries, including India, the G-20 secretariat has sent this overview which more or less mimics the base papers we had rejected as not representative of the views and concerns of all G-20 member countries.”
The G-20 climate change finance report under preparation, originates from the Major Economies Forum (MEF) held in Italy in the beginning of July this year. Here India signed a statement which calls for global warming to be kept below 2 degrees C compared to pre-industrial levels. India has since insisted that MEF discussions are informal and do not relate to the formal discussions under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and its conference to be held in Copenhagen this December
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