Climate issues to be tackled together: India

NEW DELHI (APP) - India might have political differences with its neighbours including Pakistan but on climate change, all SAARC countries, are together and speak with the same concern.
Briefing the media on Indias position on climatic changes on Tuesday, Minister of State for Environment and Forests, Jairam Ramesh said India is not negotiating or re-negotiating United Nations Framework of Convention, but is negotiating emission targets. He said that India is the third largest country in Green House Gasses emission volume after the US and China but the climate change is a result of the cumulative impact of GHG in the planetary atmosphere.
This accumulated GHG is mainly the result of carbon-based industrial activity in developed countries over the past two centuries, he said. India cannot and will not take emission reduction targets because poverty eradication and social and economic development are first and over-riding priorities.
Jairam Ramesh said each human being has equal right to global atmospheric resources. Common but differentiated responsibility is the basis for all climate change actions, he added.