India’s environment minister says reducing poverty is climate

But it will continue to champion poor countries in demanding that industrialized nations assume the brunt of responsibility for decades of climate-warming emissions.

“Poverty is, in a way, a real polluting factor”, Javadekar said, adding that India’s top priority is elevating hundreds of millions of Indians still living with less than $2 a day.

Most companies in most countries aren’t required to measure, much less declare, the extent of their carbon emissions.

“But today, I see the carbon space occupied by the developed world“, he said.

Christiana Figueres, the executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) said: “The new universal agreement to be inked in Paris this December at COP21 needs to be a springboard to that future”.

Already, one of the most incredible things we are seeing, as a direct result of organizing in urban communities, is that a whole new generation is working for the solutions and our efforts help reveal these solutions by connecting the dots between the desire to act, and the tools needed to spark their action.

Promising a “new prescription” from India to reduce greenhouse gases, Prakash Javadekar, India’s minister for environment, forests and climate change, said the country’s plans would go ahead whatever the outcome of the UN’s climate talks.

The United Nations launched a major new initiative on Tuesday designed to encourage businesses and consumers to voluntarily become “climate neutral” and some of the world’s leading companies including Microsoft, Sony, Adidas have already pledged their support.

. In the report, companies said they were driven by pressures including the desire to incentivize investment in clean energy and reducing emissions.

Before the Copenhagen conference in 2009, the global temperature was on track to increase 5 degrees Celsius, Schmidt said. “Modi has indicated he wants to make a very big push on the economy, focus more on manufacturing”. The government is looking to address contributions that include adaptation, mitigation, finance, technology transfer, capacity building and balances the need for reducing pollution and GHGs while catering to the growth needs of a large population.

As CDP asserts in the report, the striking increase in the number of companies accounting for carbon indicates that “climate change is now part of mainstream business decision-making and represents a bona-fide line item in the standard budget assumptions of successful companies”.

India will aim to reduce its “carbon intensity”-the ratio of emissions to economic output-by 35 percent from 2005 levels by 2030, according to the Hindustan Times daily”.

Emerging economies have a vital role to play and if India were to cut greenhouse gas emissions as per the need of the hour, a lot could be changed.