India to reject proposals on greenhouse gas limits

Tuesday, May 29, 2007
11:15 IST

New Delhi: India today said it would reject proposals to limit greenhouse gas emissions at the upcoming G-8 summit meeting in Germany as it would slow the pace of the country's booming economy.

"Legally mandated measures for reducing greenhouse gas emissions are likely to have significant adverse impacts on GDP growth of developing countries, including India," Environment Ministry Secretary Pradipto Ghosh told reporters here.

He said this in turn would have "serious implications for our poverty alleviation programmes".

Germany, which will host the summit from June 6 to June 8, has called for a statement limiting worlwide temperature rise this century to 2 degree Celsius and cuts to global greenhouse emissions to 50 per cent below 1990 levels by 2050.

Maintaining that legal mandates on greehouse gas mitigation in any form would impact the country's growth, Ghosh said "this is not the path we wish to pursue." "We are a responsible country and take a variety of sustainable projects to ensure energy efficiency at all levels," he said.

Now, of course we won't mind a few degrees more, Mumbai, Kolkata drowning, Indo-Gangetic plains becoming devoid of the holy Ganges. Of course these things don't matter. It would have mattered to us if we were a developed country, but no, we are a developed country, so we just don't fucking care about the environment. Uhm, I am sorry which country is facing severe climatic changes ?? How cold was January this time around in Delhi ? Wasn't there snowfall in Feb-end ?? Or more recently, weren't there thunderstorms in May when it should have been burning. But this isn't a matter of concern for us, of course not. It doesn't matter to us that we are still an agrarian country where 50+ %age of the GDP comes from the agriculture and still 80% of the population is depended on agriculture. But changes in climate won't affect them, ryt ?? The crop would take care of itself in the changing climate, we don't want to meddle with the ecology. No Sir, this is India, we don't have a problem with Global Warming, we will not reduce our emissions.