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(July 27th) Indian minister for Environment and Forest Mr. Jairam Ramesh said on Monday that India will not succumb to any international pressure on committing to a legally binding agreement on cutting greenhouse emissions but will deal with climate change issues according to its own plans, reported the semi-official Press Trust of India.
India's Environment and Forest Minister Jairam Ramesh said that under no international agreement will India accept "legally binding mitigations" of greenhouse gas which could hamper the country's development and progress, said the report.
Addressing Indian Parliament, the minister said that during a meeting with eight industrialized nations, or G8, in Italy early this month, India refused to make any commitment to cutting emissions, according to the report.
The G8 countries agreed at the meeting to cut climate change emission to 50 percent of the level of 1990 by the year 2050.
"There is no mention of pressuring developing countries like India to cut emissions," the report quoted him as saying.
Ramesh also said India has categorically stated that its per capita carbon emission will at no stage exceed the per capita carbon emission of developed nations, according to the report.
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