The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), a leading environmental body, today said India should not endorse the Copenhagen Accord on climate change, as it allowed industrialised countries to set inadequate emission reduction targets and did not come under any internationally binding commitments. CSE director Sunita Narain said "industrialised nations will get away with a pledge-and-review system" under this Accord "Developing nations like India gain nothing but allow industrialised nations like the United States an easy way out," she added. "The Accord is ineffective in the critical issue of cutting emission from industrialised countries," said Kushal Yadav, who heads CSE's climate change unit. The Accord did not set a firm peaking year for Annex-1 countries, or developed nations, he said. These countries should have emissions in2000. The Accord gave them a cop-out by allowing them to use their domestic pledges to actually increase emissions, Narain said. The US pledge, for instance, allows it to increase its emissions for the next 10 years or so.