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New Delhi, Dec 14: Government today told Rajya Sabha that it will protect the nation's interest at the Copenhagen Summit on climate change and not accept legally binding emission cuts.
"I can given an assurance to the House that country's interest will be protected," Minister of State of Finance Namo Narain Meena said answering a question put to Environment and Forest Minister Jairam Ramesh who is attending the summit in the Danish capital.
He said Ramesh will appraise Parliament, if it is in session, on his return from the summit.
Meena said India has announced a voluntary 20-25 per cent cut in carbon emission intensity by 2020 on the 2005 levels. It will however not accept legally binding emission cuts and not agree to any "peaking year" for green house gas emissions.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will be attending the summit this week to give "a political statement", he said.
Climate change, he said, was being handled at the highest level. Prime Minister's Council on Climate Change is headed by Singh while expert committees on assessment of its impact as well as eight missions under National Action Plan on Climate Change have been constituted.
The Government has taken several steps to mitigate the impact of climate change.
"The Government is aware of the adverse impact of climate change like increased frequency of extreme weather events, variation in pattern of monsoons, rise in surface temperature, sea level rise and melting of glaciers," Meena said.
"Climate change is also likely to affect agriculture and food production as well as increase of the incidence of vector borne diseases," he said.
The National Action Plan outlines eight missions in specific areas of solar energy, enhanced energy efficiency, sustainable habitat, water, sustaining Himalayan ecosystems, green India, sustainable agriculture and strategic knowledge for climate change.
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