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Publication: The Hindu
Date: February 24, 2001
India is the least contributing
nation to the greenhouse gases while the United States contributes the
most, an UN environment agency has said.
While India emits less than one
tonne of greenhouse gases per capita per year, the US, emitting 20 tonnes
remains at the top, the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) said.
UNEP Executive Director, Klaus Toepfer
at a press conference recently urged for the cooperation from us government
and industries and said ''the United States must be a part of the solution.''
He said European countries were
somewhere in the middle, at about 10 tonnes per year. On postponement by
US of the next round of discussions on reduction of greenhouse gases, he
said he was not discouraged by President George W Bush seeking deferment
of the next round of talks and called it a ''positive sign.''
''I believe that this request for
more time is a positive signal. It is a signal that there is a very honest
work going on in the administration,'' he said.
