New Delhi: Voicing concern over "painfully slow" progress in climate talks, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday said the goal of stabilising global temperatures was "nowhere in sight" and pitched for individual countries to take action to increase energy efficiency.
Singh, inaugurating the Fourth Clean Energy Ministerial, also made it clear that rich nations, who were responsible for a bulk of greenhouse gas emissions, were best placed to provide workable solutions to mitigate climate change.
They (industrialised nations) also have high per capita incomes which gives them the highest capacity to bear the burden. They are technically most advanced, and to that extent best placed to provide workable solutions not only for themselves but for the whole world," he said.
At the same time, Singh said issues of financing mitigation actions to tackle climate change have been a focus of intense discussion in negotiations under the auspices of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change....
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01:54 PM, Feb 26, 2013
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04:25 PM, Jan 22, 2013
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03:41 PM, Jan 22, 2013
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01:21 AM, Jan 22, 2013
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03:20 PM, Jan 02, 2013
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05:38 PM, Nov 12, 2012
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11:11 PM, Sep 27, 2012
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04:59 PM, Jul 29, 2012
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03:04 PM, Jun 19, 2012
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12:07 PM, Jun 05, 2012
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07:48 PM, Dec 11, 2011
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