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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, making India’s stance on climate change clear said that "equating GHG emissions across nations on a per capita basis is the only just and fair basis for a long-term global arrangement on climate change which is truly equitable".
He was addressing the two-day international climate change technology conference, which was hosted by New Delhi. He has mentioned that India’s stand on Copenhagen deal goes in hand with Bali Action Plan and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
The statements were a clear indication of India’s stand on climate change. Singh said, "We believe that continuation of the process of incentivizing the adoption of climate friendly technologies in developing countries in the second commitment period of Kyoto Protocol should be a priority concern."
He also lobbed the ball back in the industrialized countries' court, saying, "I have no doubt that if developed countries make a serious effort to bring their per capita emissions within tolerable levels, they will unleash large resources directed towards research. This will generate an upsurge of technology that will make it much easier for other countries to follow suit."
The statement was made by Indian Prime Minister after the industrialized nations ere blaming India and China to be the major triggers of climate change.
Talking on issues related to intellectual property rights, he said “The IPR regime applied to those (climate friendly) goods should balance rewards for innovators with the need to promote common good of humankind."
