India has said that the Copenhagen Accord endorses the view that the rich nations have the responsibility to agree to emission reduction cuts but conceded that it also opens a window for the burial of the Kyoto Protocol in the future.
However, it said that future of the Kyoto Protocol, which commits industrialised nations to undertake legally binding emission cuts, depends on the way the post-Copenhagen negotiations are carried out.
"That it opens a window and that possibility is there, of course. But that depends on how we take the negotiations forward," Prime Minister's Special Envoy on Climate Change Shyam Saran told Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate Programme on CNN-IBN.
He was replying to a question on whether the Copenhagen Accord opened a window for a new treaty that would allow the burial of the Kyoto Protocol.
"What I am trying to point out is that in a sense we have agreed that we will live to fight another day," he said adding that the Copenhagen Accord was "beyond a step forward" in the efforts to tackle climate change.
Saran said that a major achievement of the Copenhagen talks was that the parties had agreed that the negotiations would continue on the twin tracks of the Bali Action Plan and the Kyoto Protocol.
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