Don’t introduce new agenda in Paris conference: Javadekar to participants

Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said that the convention should not be “rewritten” and appealed to the nations to make the Paris conference an event for celebration of a universal yet differentiated new agreement, where every country takes action which it determines on its own.

“We should not forget that what will lapse is the Kyoto Protocol and not the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). We should not try to rewrite the convention. Annexes are part of the convention’s basic structure stemming from historical responsibility of countries.

“Let Paris be an event for celebration of a universal, yet differentiated new agreement, where every country takes action which it determines on its own. Such collective action will address the challenge of climate change,” Javadekar said while making an intervention at the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate Change at Luxembourg on Sunday.

He was reacting to suggestions from some countries that “Annexes” should not be reflected in the 

new agreement as Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) will themselves result in differentiation through self differentiation.

He cautioned “the developed world that for the success of Paris and for giving a chance to the action under INDCs, no new agenda should be introduced at this late hour.”