Rejecting recent attempts to link trade to climate change, the government said that countries like India would not accept any move by industrialised countries to use climate change to restrict trade. Prime Minister's special envoy Shyam Saran said that India rejected all attempts to push developing countries to cut their emissions by linking it with trade. ''Countries like India are saying sorry it's not a trade issue. Environment can not be used as a trade issue,'' said Mr Saran, who added that developing countries could not pass on their obligation or impose conditionalities on developed countries. He was reacting to attempts made by EU and more recently by Japan to link trade issue with climate change. ''There is no even playing field (for India) even to begin with. There has to be distinction between lifestyle emission and survival emissions. We are also talking to China, Brazil and South Africa on these issues," Mr. Saran said.