India opposed any move to impose quantitative restrictions for greenhouse emissions on developing countries at the meeting of the world's 16 major economies leaders at the venue of the G8 summit, the Indian Express reported Thursday.
India on Wednesday asked the industrialized world not to use climate change to introduce conditionalities or protectionism that will hinder their efforts to meet the already complex development challenges.
In his intervention at the Major Economies Meeting (MEM) comprising the G8, the five outreach countries and others, on the issue of climate change, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh pointed out that the developed countries had failed to show progress on the low levels of agreed greenhouse gases reductions and asked the G8 to take the lead on the issue.
"The quicker you reduce your emissions, the greater the incentive for us to follow," Singh told the MEM.
Climate change was a huge challenge for all, Singh said, but "it should not be used to add conditionalities to the already complex development challenge that the developing countries faced or retaining the economic status quo or attempting to introduce protectionism by another means."
The Prime Minister said that developing countries cannot for the present even consider quantitative restrictions on their emissions as sustained and accelerated economic growth is critical for them.
Source:Xinhua
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