India on Tuesday asked industrialised nations to set effective timeframes for significant reduction in greenhouse gas emissions to deal with climate change. It also expressed "extreme concern" over climate change as developing countries will bear a "disproportionately severe" impact of the adverse effects of the phenomenon."We are extremely concerned about climate change ... as developing countries will bear a disproportionately severe impact of its adverse effects even as responsibility lies with those nations that have been emitting since industrialisation," external affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee said addressing the Second Sustainability Summit: Asia-2007 here.He said the need of the hour for developing countries is adapting to the inevitability of climate change.
"We need to have necessary financial and technological support," Mukherjee said.India is very clear about the adherence to the principle of common differentiated responsibility to address the effects of climate change, he said.Mukherjee noted that India was home to 17% of the world's population and its greenhouse gas emissions were 4% of the total global emissions.
He said India's emissions will not increase beyond those of the industrialised nations in the future. Mukherjee said India was pursuing various other sources of energy, including nuclear power. "Strong efforts are being made by the government to increase the share of nuclear power in the total power generation in the country," he said.
New Indian Express, December 11th 2007
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