Developing nations key to tackle climate change: Reinfeldt

New Delhi, Nov 5 (PTI) Contending that developing nations
account for a significant share in green house gas emissions,
Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt Thursday said such
countries are vital to the solution to tackle global warming.
"More than 50 per cent of the global greenhouse gas
emissions are from the developing countries... we have to do
this together," he said in an interaction with students of
TERI University here.
Reinfeldt indicated that it would be incorrect to say
that only the rich nations have to sort out the problem of
climate change.
"There will be a group of emerging economies that will be
vital to how to solve this problem," he said adding that
countries like China, Indonesia, India, Brazil, South Africa
and Mexico were too crucial for success of the plans to tackle
climate change.
Reinfeldt made a strong pitch for reaching an agreement
on a successor to the Kyoto Protocol at Copenhagen talks in
December and said the absence of a clear deal would mean lack
of infrastructure to tackle climate change.
He said the US also needs to be part of the climate
change agreement as leaving out the biggest emitter would not
be good for the planet. PTI