vIndianz.com (Dec. 05, 2009) — Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will be present from December 7to December 18 climate change summit in Copenhagen, it was announced on Saturday.
Singh will be there at the summit on December 18th. This follows the declaration by US President Barack Obama, who too will be present at the meet summit on December 18th.
India would decrease its emission intensity by 20-25 per cent by 2020 from the 2005 level, Minister of Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh told the Lok Sabha on Thursday. India was reducing the emission intensity–the level of greenhouse gas emissions per unit of GDP–in its own interest, he said.
India’s statement came a few days subsequent to China announced a 40-45 per cent slash in its emissions intensity by 2020 compared to 2005, Brazil announced 38-42 per cent and Indonesia 26 per cent.
India’s emissions intensity is by now lower than other budding economies, and the minister said it had decreased 17.6 per cent between 1990 and 2005.
A few environmentalists say the government’s statement is a favor to the US. “What we have to comprehend is not what the Minister said but what the Minister did not say – that India might well be doing this to assist the Americans because the Americans want to change the goal post, they want to move from legally binding cuts to voluntary targets. That is bad for the climate,” Sunita Narain, Director of the New Delhi-based environment group Centre for Science and Environment, has said.
A study by a non-profit group that monitors greenhouse-gas emissions showed that 68 per cent of 200 of India’s top companies said they were measuring their carbon emissions and have pledged to formulate global warming a element of their business plan.
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