India ready to target emissions as pressure mounts on US | The Australian

India ready to target emissions as pressure mounts on US

Correspondents in New Delhi, Washington and Brussels

September 19, 2009 – Article from: The Australian

INDIA wrong-footed the US and other rich nations yesterday by agreeing for the first time to set numerical targets for curbing its greenhouse gas emissions.

The move added to pressure on the Obama administration to deliver on its own climate change pledges even as senior Democrats warned that US legislation might face severe delays.

Indian Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said legislation was being drafted in New Delhi to limit India’s carbon footprint and in the process repair his country’s reputation for intransigence on climate change before a UN conference in Copenhagen in December.

The announcement marks a breakthough in international talks, which have stalled over whether emissions curbs in a new UN climate treaty should apply to developing nations as well as to the developed countries covered by the Kyoto Protocol…

EU leaders meeting in Brussels yesterday before the Pittsburgh summit of the world’s 20 leading economies, called on the G20 leaders to inject much-needed urgency into the climate change talks.

In New Delhi, Mr Ramesh said: “This notion that India is intransigent on mitigation is crap. We are mitigating, and mitigating considerably, to save our forests and our rivers. But for an international agreement, the developed world has to demonstrate its seriousness much more credibly than it has done so far.”

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