New Delhi, India (AHN) - India’s Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has asked the country to keep its expectations under check as far as the fight against climate change is concerned. Ramesh, who was in Beijing on Sunday to attend talks on climate change, remarked that the climate change talks between countries had reached a virtual dead-end.
Refusing to see any silver lining in the clouds shrouding a global agreement on climate change, Ramesh said that the upcoming talks, to be held in Mexico later this year, would not be much different from those that took place last year when the countries fought bitterly amongst each other. Ramesh also said that the prospect of reaching a breakthrough in talks was very remote.
He charged that after the U.S. failed to push through its own climate legislation, its authority to influence a global agreement in the forthcoming climate change summit has suffered seriously.
Meanwhile, speaking about the Indo-China agreement on cooperation on Himalayan glaciers, Ramesh laid delays in the agreement to bureaucracy.
He advocated for both India and China to begin negotiations on sharing the waters of the river Brahmaputra on which both the countries are trying to build power projects. Speaking to the Hindustan Times, Ramesh said, “The great fear in India has been that China would divert Brahmaputra to feed its southwest. We need to discuss it bilaterally. It’s going to be slow going.”
