(a) whether the Government has agreed to consider international measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV) of its mitigation actions to take per capita plus approach and give per capita emergence principle on climate change;
(b) if so, the salient features of the agreement and indices stand thereon; and
(c) the details of other developing countries who have accepted the MRV Agreement?
MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) FOR ENVIRONMENT AND FORESTS (SHRI JAIRAM RAMESH)
(a) to (c) India does not supports Measurement, Reporting and Verification(MRV)
of its voluntary domestic mitigation actions . The current negotiations are aimed,
inter alia, at deciding institutional arrangements for development and transfer of
clean technologies through technology cooperation and provision of financial
resources to developing countries to enable them to adapt to and mitigate climate
change. Parties are currently engaged in negotiations under the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change and Kyoto Protocol in order to reach agreed
outcomes at the 15th Conference of Parties scheduled in Copenhagen in December 2009.