HIGH LEVEL
MEETING OF 33 COUNTRIES AGREE ON DELHI DECLARATION ON CLIMATE
CHANGE
The United Nations
Conference on Climate Change, COP-8, to be held later this month
in New Delhi will come out with the Delhi Declaration incorporating
a framework of action for implementation of concrete measures
to mitigate climate change. An agreement to this effect was reached
at the two-day high-level meeting of Environment Ministers and
delegates from about 35 countries, that concluded in New Delhi
yesterday. The Delhi Declaration proposal made by India to make
COP-8 a meaningful and productive conference was endorsed by the
participants. The Environment and Forests Minister, Shri T.R.Baalu
presided over the meeting.
Shri Baalu said that
the previous climate change conferences addressed to various negotiational
and institutional issues and the Delhi conference shall mark the
beginning of concrete actions for containing and mitigating the
climate change. India’s proposals for Round Table format of plenary
sessions for focussed discussions and the themes for the three
Round Tables were also accepted. The themes will be – Stocktaking
of implementation of commitments under the UN Convention on Climate
Change and Sustainable development and climate change. The third
Round Table will finalise the Delhi Declaration based on the discussion
in the earlier Round Tables.
The Delhi Declaration
is aimed at giving the necessary momentum for taking requisite
measures for combating global climate change. COP-8 also seeks
to operationalise various financial and institutional mechanisms
that were agreed to in the previous
