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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said India stood committed to ensure that its per capita carbon emissions would never exceed the average levels of developed countries and would adopt purpose domestic actions to enhance its climate change management.

He also said that climate friendly and environmentally sound technologies should be viewed as global public goods.

“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,” Dr Singh said in his inaugural address to a High Level Conference on “Climate Change: Technology Development and Transfer” here.

The conference has been organised by the Ministry of Environment and Forests in collaboration with the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA).

The Prime Minister said he had no doubt that if developed countries made a serious effort to bring their per capita emissions within tolerable levels, they would unleash large resources directed towards research. This , he said, would generate an upsurge of technology that would make it much easier for other countries to follow suit.

He said that India was, meanwhile, acting to do what it could within its limited capacity.

“We are committed to further evolving and pursuing our sustainable growth strategy for reasons of our own vital national interests. India will adopt purposive domestic actions to enhance its climate change management. The focus of our efforts will be targeted towards achieving time-bound outcomes related to the energy efficiency of our economy, the share of renewable in our fuel mix and several other sector specific initiatives,” he said.

Dr Singh said these objectives were reflected in India’s National Action Plan on Climate Change which contains eight National Missions focussing on both mitigation and adaptation.

He said that a comprehensive, balanced and an equitable outcome at Copenhagen would enable the country to do much more in all these areas.

“As we move towards Copenhagen, we must keep to the mandate for our deliberations agreed upon by consensus at Bali. Our objective is to enhance the implementation of the principles and provisions of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC),” he said.

He said there was need to work towards a significantly enhanced and scaled-up set of arrangements for technology under a multilaterally supervised mechanism.

“We need to act across all the stages of the technology cycle

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