Rich countries pollute more, but blame India
By siliconindia   |   Thursday, 22 October 2009, 21:55 IST   |    1 Comments
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Rich countries pollute more, but blame India
New Delhi: The latest data from UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) says greenhouse gas emissions from the rich nations increased by 12.8 percent from 1990-2007. While the industrialized countries are now gunning for India and China to take on stronger commitments and obligations under the new deal to be possibly thrashed out by the Copenhagen round of UN negotiations in December, the data from UNFCCC showed that most of the reductions had come from the "economies in transition" - mostly eastern European and Balkan countries whose economies have crashed, according to Times of India. U.S is still among the few countries, who have not signed the Kyoto Protocol. According to the data, Carbondioxide emissions from the U.S. increased by 20.2 percent from 1990-2007. Even as U.S is blaming India and China for pollution, its own targets for the period closing 2020 would not even reach the 1990 levels. Developing countries, in contrast, have stated that the science demands U.S and other developed countries take emission reduction cuts of at least 40 percent below 1990 levels to keep temperatures under control. Turkey's emissions grew at 118 percent while that of Spain by 60 percent and Japan's at 14 percent. "The continuing growth of emissions from industrialized countries remains worrying, despite the expectation of a momentary dip brought about by the global recession," Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary of UNFCCC, said in a press statement. Usually emission is related with the economic activities of a country. Higher production levels require greater fossil fuel based energy. Rich nations do not want to reduce carbon emission as it will impact them economically as well.

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