India made it clear on Monday that it wants contentious issues, including access to intellectual property rights, to be a part of the upcoming climate change talks at Durban in South Africa.
New Delhi has submitted a proposal to the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, asking it to include three issues in the agenda. They are: unilateral trade measures, intellectual property rights and equitable access to sustainable development.
India requested that the three issues be included in the provisional agenda of the 17th meeting of the Conference of Parties to be held in Durban in late November this year. "These issues have been neglected and not properly addressed in the 2010 Cancun," an official statement said.
Developed countries, especially the United States, are of the view that
these issues have been settled in Mexico's Cancun.
However, most developing countries are of the view that not all the issues were addressed in Cancun, it added.
Among other things, India is pushing for an IPR regime for developing countries to have access to costly clean western technologies.
The Cancun agreements were silent on IPR issue.
"Conference of Parties," the statement said, "should urgently decide on addressing the issue of treating and delivering climate technologies and their IPRs as public good in the interest of the global goal of early stabilisation of climate."
UNFCCC is an international environmental treaty produced at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, held in Rio de Janeiro from mid-1992.
Its objective is to stabilise greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.
India made it clear on Monday that it wants contentious issues, including access to intellectual property rights, to be a part of the upcoming climate change talks at Durban in South Africa.