*Unfortunately, the whole world doesn't have much solar power now. And India is
world greenhouse gas emitter #4. "Yeah, but we Indians are poor, or we used to be!
You can't blame POOR GUYS for destroying the planet, can ya?"
*Green gestures like this oughta appease Indians when they realize that their
Himalayan glaciers have melted and the sacred Ganges is drier than a bone.
"We didn't slow our carbon emissions, but we slowed our RISE in carbon emissions!
The Ganges is bound to understand our good intentions!"
http://planetark.org/wen/53340
Date: 12-Jun-09
Country: GERMANY
Author: Gerard Wynn and Alister Doyle
BONN - India will submit plans within weeks to slow its rise in carbon emissions significantly and to generate more solar power by 2020 than the whole world generates now, a senior climate official said on Thursday.
But the world's fourth biggest emitter of greenhouse gases cannot say when its emissions will peak and start to decline, said Shyam Saran, special climate envoy to Indian Prime Minster Manmohan Singh.
Saran was speaking on the sidelines of a June 1-12 climate meeting in Bonn, the latest round of U.N. talks meant to lead to agreement in December on a pact to replace the Kyoto Protocol.
The talks are stuck on how far developing countries should share the cost of preparing for and curbing the worst effects of climate change and helping its victims.
"We are prepared to look at a significant deviation from business as usual (emissions)", provided this is supported by financing from rich countries, said Saran.
The European Union wants developing countries collectively to reduce their emissions of planet-warming gases by 15-30 percent below current trends by 2020.
India can neither be so specific nor say when its emissions will peak, Saran said. That depends on ambitious carbon caps and financial support from rich countries which are not yet on the table, he said.
India is about to publish eight climate "missions" to boost efficiency, renewable energy and sustainable development.
