Copenhagen Accord: U.S Perceptions on Transparency & Commitments

Copenhagen Accord:
U.S Perceptions on Transparency & Commitments

(Madan Menon Thottasseri)
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The Obama Administration on Wednesday December 23, 2009 had emanated buoyancy on the transparency and sufficient data to facilitate for fairly evaluating whether countries are living up the commitments they made as per the Copenhagen Accord.

Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs P J Crowley had declared on the sequence of events during the closing days of the Copenhagen Summit. He said . "One of the significant issues when the Secretary of State arrived in Copenhagen on Thursday (December 17, 2009)morning and worked through these issues during the day on Thursday and the President on Friday (December 18,2009) was in fact to make sure that there was a significant, verification aspect to the accord," Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs P J Crowley said.

This declaration is to be appreciably noticed by members of BASIC BLOC who are part of the Copenhagen Accord. P.J.Crowley had said “We think at the end of the day, through some very intensive dialogue by the President and the Secretary with world leaders, that what emerged from Copenhagen in fact have -- has the kind of transparency and mechanisms so that in fact we can have access to data with -- not in an intrusive way, but just so we'll have sufficient transparency and access to data so that everyone can fairly evaluate whether countries are living up to their agreements,"

In fact these statements came out from Crowley as a clarification to a controversial statement from David Axelrod, Senior White House Advisor, to the CNN last week wherein he had said that the US would not only "review" the implementation of Copenhagen Accord by India and China, but also would challenge New Delhi and Beijing if they do not meet the goals set by the agreement reached by the leaders of these countries at Copenhagen.