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West should do more to achieve sustainable development: Ramesh

India on Monday said that the international community should not expect much from the upcoming Climate Change summit in Cancun, Mexico and underlined that the West should do more to achieve sustainable development. Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh told PTI in New York that Cancun is headed nowhere because the financial commitments made by the developed countries at Copenhagen have not been fulfilled and are unlikely to be fulfilled in any substantial measure. He said the Climate Change conference in Copenhagen last year yielded the contentious and non-binding Copenhagen Accord. The Accord was produced by 29 countries, but was principally drafted by the US, China, India, Brazil and South Africa at the eleventh hour of the Conference. It was slammed by certain countries including Bolivia, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba for having left the majority of the nations out of the negotiating process. The climate conference in Cancun is expected to produce a legally binding climate change treaty but so far the developed and developing countries have been unable to reach a consensus on key negotiating texts. During the week, Mr. Ramesh will also attend the Conference on Biodiversity and meet his counterparts from several countries. The UN has found that the world has already missed the 2010 deadline for biodiversity conservation with potentially grave consequences, and the number of species facing extinction is growing by the day especially in developing countries.

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