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Breaking news: PM, Indian delegation walk out of climate summit
PM Manmohan Singh and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao have decided to walk out of the meet on climate change in Copenhagen, thereby, taking on US jointly.
India and China walked out of the plenary meet over the ‘Umbrella Paragraph’.
As per India’s stance on climate change, it is ready to cut CO2 emissions per unit of GDP by 20-25% from 2005 levels by 2020.
India rejects legally binding target and stresses that rich countries should legally bound.
As per Indian position, it says rich countries are to blame for climate change and points to big gap in per capita emissions, wants 40 per cent cut in rich country emissions by 2020, and opposes goal of halving world emissions by 2050.
As per Chinese stance at the UN climate change summit in Copenhagen, it has set a ‘binding goal’ to cut CO2 per unit of GDP by 40-45 per cent below 2005 levels by 2020, wants rich countries to reduce emissions to 40 per cent below 1990 level by 2020.
Indian, Chinese PMs walk out of Copenhagen meet
PM Manmohan Singh and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao have decided to walk out of the meet on climate change in Copenhagen, thereby, taking on US jointly.
India and China walked out of the plenary meet over the ‘Umbrella Paragraph’.
As per India’s stance on climate change, it is ready to cut CO2 emissions per unit of GDP by 20-25% from 2005 levels by 2020.
India rejects legally binding target and stresses that rich countries should legally bound.
As per Indian position, it says rich countries are to blame for climate change and points to big gap in per capita emissions, wants 40 per cent cut in rich country emissions by 2020, and opposes goal of halving world emissions by 2050.
As per Chinese stance at the UN climate change summit in Copenhagen, it has set a ‘binding goal’ to cut CO2 per unit of GDP by 40-45 per cent below 2005 levels by 2020, wants rich countries to reduce emissions to 40 per cent below 1990 level by 2020.
Indian, Chinese PMs walk out of Copenhagen meet