The Climate deal not enough to solve the problems: Barack Obama
merisarkar news service
New Delhi, December 18, 2009
US President Barack Obama has said the US has reached a meaningful deal to curb greenhouse gas emissions with four emerging economies, including India.
He, however, warned that it was not enough to battle climate change. A senior Obama administration official said the deal reached by the US, India, China, South Africa and Brazil includes a method for verifying reductions of heat absorbing green house gases.
He said under the agreement, each country also will list the actions they will take to cut global warming pollution by specific amounts.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown accepted the Copenhagen climate deal, but said they had wanted more.
However, Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh’s special envoy on Climate change Mr. Shyam Saran is staying back at Copenhagen to workout the finalities on the agreement which has the approval of the Heads of State.
Barack Obama and Manmohan Singh delayed their departure from the Danish capital as world leaders went into an extra night of discussions in a bid to hammer out a deal on climate change.
Earlier, New Delhi asserted that any global regime to tackle climate change must take sustainable development into account.
Dr. Manmohan Singh yesterday said that the outcome of the conference may well fall short of our expectations but it can become a significant milestone. He called for further negotiations leading to a legal treaty to tackle global warming in 2010.
