Developed countries declarations on climate change ‘make no sense’ India

Economic Times
Saturday, July 5, 2008

NEW DELHI: Industrialised countries should meet their own commitments in the fight against climate change rather than asking countries like India and China to cap greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the prime minister’s principal negotiator on climate change Shyam Saran said here.

A week before leaders of 16 major economies – including India – are expected to sign a declaration underscoring the importance of fighting climate change, Saran told IANS in an interview that emission reduction targets being announced by developed countries meant nothing in the absence of a baseline year from which to measure the reductions.

As agreed in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), “1990 must be the baseline year” from which GHG emissions would be reduced, Saran said. “We’ll resist any unilateral attempt to try and change the baseline to some future date.”

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Declarations by developed countries to halve GHG emissions by 2050 “make no sense” without a baseline, he pointed out. “It will only confuse world public opinion. It may make them think you are doing something very major, which you actually have no intention of doing,” Saran said.

Saran also wanted industrialised countries to draw out the path they would follow to their 2050 goals. Otherwise, “how do we know whether this is a credible target? Especially, taking into account the fact that most major countries are unlikely to meet their current (2007-2012) commitments”.

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3 Responses to “Developed countries declarations on climate change ‘make no sense’ India”

1. Ajit Kankariya, Pune, India Says:
   July 6th, 2008 at 6:39 am

   This climate change issue is biggest fraud in the history of world. This is the new way to colonise the world without requiring to physically in control!

2. josh deaver Says:
   July 7th, 2008 at 9:22 am

   It is perhaps the biggest fraud ever.. but the worst part of it is that the idea is to radically engineer the societies of specifically the west ( and for the most case the world) to halt industrial processes of all kinds…its called the “post-industrial” society, it has been written about countless times by the UN and hundreds of think-tanks.

   UNEP released a definition of what is “unsustainable” in 1995, this included everything that we have ever known as normal and a part of societal development:

   “Fossil fuels. Artificial fertilizer, modern agriculture processes, irrigation water, herbicide, pesticides, farm lands, pastures, grazing of livestock, consumerism, dietary habits, private prop, paved road, damns, logging, fencing of pastures…”

   These are the types of things are looking to be eliminated in the countries of the West all in the name of the deadly pollutant known as carbon dioxide and fake foundation/fortune 500-funded, Malthusian environmental groups

   Of course, the underlying idealogies are easy to dissern. Global Government, technocracy (rule of the skilled-rule by experts aka scientists) and a planned society are all included in the Club of Rome’s “World Resolutique” as the ’solution’ representing the ‘main planks’ of the new global system to prepare us for the RADICAL technological societal changes that will supposedly ‘liberate us’.

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3. Gregory Fegel Says:
   July 8th, 2008 at 12:39 am

   Global Warming is a hoax presented by ruthless opportunists like Al Gore who seek to make a lot of money from carbon credit brokerage and promoting nuclear energy as an ‘alternative’ energy source. World CO2 levels naturally rise and fall with global temperatures as part of the Ice Age cycle. In fact, world CO2 levels actually follow behind world temperatures, and therefore rising CO2 DOES NOT cause rising temperatures. 325 thousand years ago, CO2 levels were higher than they are today, and polar bears DID NOT go extinct then because of CO2 or temperature; why should they now? See link:

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