G-8 and G-5 nations call for shared responsibility to address the world’s energy development and utilisation
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  • The world’s most powerful and emerging nations - together responsible for more than 80 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, after a day-long meeting at the end of the G 8 summit in Japan, came out with a joint statement calling climate change “one of the great global challenges of our times.” Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had reiterated prior to the meet that “India would not accept any targets that may be set by international bodies reducing its carbon emissions.” Dr. Singh further noted that India cannot, by any stretch of the imagination, be regarded as a major polluter of greenhouse gases as India’s contribution to global emissions was less than 4 per cent. On per capita basis, it amounted to an average of 1.2 tonnes, which was very low1.

    The long-term goal of halving worldwide greenhouse-gas emissions by 2050 by the leading industrialised nations reflected the unyielding view of China and India that the United States and Europe, with many times more emissions per citizen than poorer countries, had a greater obligation on their part.

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