Click to play videoNew Delhi: The countdown to save Planet Earth has now started. Less than a month from now, world leaders must sign a new global agreement to tackle climate change. But the deadlock between the developed and developing countries over who will cut their carbon emissions continues.
Manmohan Singh's Special Envoy on climate change, Shyam Saran said, "These are indications of commitments which are also conditional. So if everyone is waiting for somebody else to give his numbers on the table you will keep going around in circles."
Pressure is mounting on industrialised countries to agree to specific carbon cuts and to provide financial help to poor countries to deal with the damages caused by global warming.
Greenpeace, USA Global Warming Campaign Director, Damon Moglen said, "The US as the world's largest stark polluter and has a very special responsibility in these talks. Right now the legislation pending in the Congress is not strong enough to address climate change. The President needs to step in and personally direct US negotiators to reach an agreement here."
Back home in India, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh too has expressed his frustration with the deadlock.
"India will enter talks as a responsible citizen of the planet. The West must share their burden," he said.
The five-day negotiating round in Barcelona was meant to prepare the text of a global warming pact, which was to be adopted by the world at Copenhagen next month. But with talks having failed, the world will meet again but with a fractured draft of the treaty.
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