Rich should fund emission reduction in poor countries: Singh

New Delhi, Nov 8 (PTI) The Indian government on Sunday
promised to work for a purposeful outcome on climate change at
the Copenhagen Conference, but asked rich nations responsible
for the damage in the first place to finance developing
countries' work on limiting carbon emissions.

"We will work with all like minded countries to promote a
purposeful outcome of the Copenhagen Conference (from December
6-18)," Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh said at the
India Economic Summit attended by industry and business
captains from around the world.
He, however, held developed nations responsible for the
CO2 accumulation due to industrialisation over the last 150
years.
This was "not as a result of anything that we have
done... in recognition of common but differentiative
capabilities, which is our hope that while all the countries
will be required to contribute according to their capacities
and abilities, the world's major economies will be prepared to
...(ensure that) large capital flows become available for
integration for adaptation measures," Singh said.
He also sought rich nations' help for a technology
regime under which the developing countries of the world would
have access to these technologies at affordable rates.
A round of negotiations in Barcelona ahead of the
Copenhagen Conference ended with little progress in respect of
commitments by developed countries on emission reduction and
funding the efforts in this direction by developing nations.
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