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A UN special meet on climate change harped on the developed world to carry more of the burden of tackling greenhouse emissions. Warning that if let loose to envelope the planet, these carbon emissions will choke the atmosphere poisoning the man-friendly environment, the UN also called for less-developed nations to contribute their bit in cooling the atmosphere.

Every one of us is familiar of the havoc that carbon emissions are wreaking in the atmosphere, raising mercury levels to an extent that calls for urgent attention. Relentless development, reckless industrialization, merciless destruction of flora is fuelling the atmosphere to an extent that would devour the entire planet one day. Human warming of the planet in the form of carbon emissions propelled by petrol eating vehicles, power plants, and industries is discharging innumerable pollutants into the atmosphere resulting in a rise in global temperatures.

The earth has already started showing dangerous signs of times to come. Melting glaciers, flooding, droughts, constant hurricanes, rising seas, dying creatures, and what not, all is the result of global climate change.

British economist Nicholas Stern acknowledges that carbon dioxide emissions need to be curtailed by at least 50 percent by 2050, if we want the earth to remain a green planet forever. Necessitating the need for cuts Stern asserts,

Because of reasons of past responsibility and better access to resources, the rich countries should take much bigger objectives than that 50 percent. They should be looking for around 75 percent cuts.

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The better-placed richer nations must share most of the responsibility to financing cuts in emissions in poor undeveloped countries, which are fighting poverty and have no resources to their avail to contain emissions. Industrialized developed nations need to review their policy on climate change by allowing opportunities like carbon trading and offsetting to prosper.

Sunita Narain, director of India’s Center for Science and Environment, in her address snubbed the richer developed nations for the disproportionate sharing of the emissions. Asserting that the need of the day is an urgent attention on behalf of the developed world to share the ecological imbalance considerably, Narain retorts,

The rich world has to reduce emissions far more drastically than it has done so to date. The political leadership is very high on rhetoric but very low on real action when it comes to delivering the goods on climate change.

At a time, when most of the nations of the world are fighting a bizzare change in climate in the form of floods in one part and droughts in the other, risking everyone from humans to animals, a global consensus on reining global warming has to be reached.

The developed countries should start searching environment technology to support the environment rather than snubbing poor underdeveloped nations to cut their development for the sake of global climate. Is the developed world right in asking for such a huge demand from the poor nations, whose economy still needs wheels to sustain itself and run? If restraining their development process will hurt their economy, then how can rich countries ask for cuts from the poor nations? It is the bounden duty of the rich developed nations to lead from the front in a global effort to tackle global warming.

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Via: Reuters

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