CPI(M) Parliamentary Party leader Sitaram Yechury, who leaves for Denmark as part of a five-member parliamentary delegation, said India would not accept any cut-off date for carbon emissions, as a large majority of Indians had no access to electricity and still survived on wood and cow-dung cakes as fuel.

He said though the delegation, comprising himself, M.S. Swaminathan, Murli Manohar Joshi, Bhartruhari Mahatab and Hamdullah Sayeed, was not part of the official delegation, it would ensure that the Indian negotiators “adhered scrupulously” to the red line drawn by Parliament.

Developing countries, including India, would not accept any mandatory emission targets.

The move by the U.S. to cut 17 per cent of emission from 2005 level actually worked to 3 per cent from the 1990 benchmark level.

The voluntary action plan to cut emission would be sent to the international body as information.

Its implementation would be in accordance with the U.N. framework convention on climate change that talked of transfer of financial and resources of green technology by the developed countries to developing nations.

“We require environmental justice and we can accept only when every human being has equal access to carbon space.

“Per capita should be the only basis to calculate emission” Mr. Yechury said.