United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climatic Change has taken serious note to the inability of developed nation to curb carbon emission.
In an interview given to Guardian, the head of United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Rajendra Pachauri put light on the up-and-coming tussle between rich and poor country to work on cutting emission rate while praising Germany and Britain in its effort to curb the same.
Pachauri said “Looking at the politics of the situation, I doubt whether any of the developing countries will make any commitments before they have seen the developed countries take a specific stand.”
“In several developing countries you get the feeling -- in fact people state it very clearly -- that these guys (rich countries) are going to shove the whole burden on to our shoulders. That's why it's necessary for the developed world to establish certain credibility,” he added.
He said that developed country must contribute towards achieving the goal of carbon reduction before bringing in China and India as signatories for any climate deal, as the two countries with its expanding economy play a major role and certain measures and actions such as “ambitious carbon-reduction targets for the next decade from rich countries and more money to help poorer countries adapt to global warming” are needed to complement the same.
The developing countries including India and China are not willing to accept new global climate change pact to replace the Kyoto protocol in 2012 in Copenhagen because the rich world has failed to set an example in cutting carbon emission.
Pachauri, an economist and environmental scientist, on behalf of the IPCC, along with the American former vice-president Al Gore won Nobel Prize for Peace. The IPCC is a platform that provides decision makers and others interested in climate change with an objective source of information about climate change.
Earlier in an IPCC meeting in Budapest, Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, said that it is difficult to reach an agreement while warning the carbon emission of China and India which if grew at the same pace as their economies, mankind would be unable to prevent a critical level of warming.
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