Jairam Ramesh to leave for Copenhagen summit today

New Delhi, December 11: With India promising to be a “part of the solution,” huge responsibilities await Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh at Copenhagen as he leaves on Friday to attend the climate change talks.

Ramesh is already facing flak for his reported turnaround in India’s position by seeking flexibility at the negotiations, with a section including the Opposition charging him to be “sold out to the US.”

Ramesh has since then been maintaining that there had been no change in his position on the basic issues of what developed and developing countries should do to fight climate change, but everything else was “negotiable” as it wanted to be the part of the solution to the problem it never created.

-PTI