SARAN-CLIMATE 2lST

Saran also equated China's recent pledge to reduce
carbon intensity with India's various steps taken to improve
energy efficiency across the sectors in the country.

"China has essentially not announced an emission
reduction target but has announced a slowing down of its
emission growth.
"It is reducing the energy intensity and then the
carbon intensity of its future growth, it means its (rate of)
emission will grow slower than they would normally have," he
explained adding that now what India is also doing is that its
emissions will rise, but less than economic growth.
"That (what China is doing) is not very different from
what India has been saying that even though its energy
efficiency is already quite impressive, it is in position to
continue with this improvement in its energy efficiencies and
probably reach a figure of about 25 per cent by 2020."
He reminded that "the country has delivered 8-9 per
cent growth in the last ten years or more with only a 3.8 or
3.9 per cent growth in our energy per annum, which means
energy intensity growth is coming down and this trend is
expected to continue."
If you want to convert it or avoid the emission, that
amounts to a very significant deviations (from business as
usual).
The statement prepared by India and China along with
other key developing nations in Beijing has said the Kyoto
Protocol should remain in force, with rich countries taking
responsibility to cut emissions in accordance with the
protocol's second commitment period from 2013. PTI AJ
MYR


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