India Will Not Commit To Peak Year For Carbon Emissions, But Will "Cooperate Closely" blahblah
In disappointing news for watchers of global warming, an Indian government official has said the country won’t announce a target date for reducing the total amount of carbon it emits. India is the world’s third-largest emitter of carbon dioxide, which causes climate change.
First reported by the BBC, the comments came from Indian environment minister Prakash Javadekar, who said that the country will submit a plan to cut emissions to the U.N., which is hosting international climate talks at the end of the year. But India will not give a target date for when it expects to peak its total carbon emissions. “The world is not expecting… India to announce its peaking year,” Javadekar told the BBC. “Countries know where India stands and what its requirements [development needs] are and therefore nobody has asked us for [the] peaking year.”
The comments are not exactly new ground for Javadekar, who has said before that India will need to keep emitting carbon in order to combat its poverty problem. Last year, in an interview with the New York Times, Javadekar said “that his government’s first priority was to alleviate poverty and improve the nation’s economy, which he said would necessarily involve an increase in emissions through new coal-powered electricity and transportation.”
He said that the idea of peaking carbon emissions is more “for developed countries.” The United States, the second-largest carbon emitter, has pledged to cut its carbon emissions by 26 to 28 percent by 2025. China, the largest carbon emitter, announced on Tuesday a commitment to peak its emissions around 2030.
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http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/07/02/3676524/india-climate-pledge-wont-peak/
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India will do it's part but will not take shit from the mass polluters of 100 years.
Do not forget that the real problem in the world is still America and it's anti-science Congress.
So when we tell them "We fucked up the environment with rampant fossil fuel use and put ourselves into the fossil fuel industry's pockets, don't repeat our mistakes", is that "taking shit" from Europe and the US?
