Econonmic Times - Pachauri Calls Carbon-Heavy Economic Growth "Suicide" For India

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NEW DELHI: High incomes and high carbon dioxide emissions go hand-in-hand all over the world, but the head of the globe's top scientific body on climate change says India can be different. India is drafting a climate change strategy due next month, ahead of a key United Nations meeting in Bali, Indonesia, in December to begin talks on post-2012 emissions-cuts commitments.

"India shouldn't emulate the path that has been established by developed countries. It would be suicide for us," Rajendra K Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), told media. "If China and India were to follow the same pattern of development you are going to have serious conflict. Where are all the resources going to come from?"

As head of a body set up by the United Nations Environment Programme and the UN's World Meteorological Organisation to evaluate the available science on climate change, Pachauri has overseen the publication of a long-awaited report on global warming this year. It pronounced that the earth's recent warming was more than 90 per cent likely to be man-made.

He is also on India's newly created Council on Climate Change, responsible for coming up with a national strategy before the December talks that will seek to extend or replace the 10-year-old Kyoto Protocol.

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[AlecBGreen]

1. some may disagree

the first country to rapidly decrease fossil-fuel-based energy use and increase resource efficiency is gonna become the next economic superpower. Thats assuming the US doesnt do it first and keep its #1 place of course :eyes: Im not holding my breath on that