What is Global Warming? Global Warming (GW) is defined as the increase of the average temperature on Earth. As the Earth is getting hotter, disasters like hurricanes, droughts and floods are getting more frequent. It happens when greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, water vapor, nitrous oxide, and methane) trap heat and light from the sun in the earth’s atmosphere, which increases the temperature. In India, the unstable monsoon is mainly attributed to GW. The effects of GW on India vary from the submergence of low-lying islands and coastal lands to the melting of glaciers. Indian climatic conditions have become increasingly volatile and these changes are projected to impact millions of lives. The United States wants developing countries like India to agree to control the emissions and to sign legally binding limits on carbon emissions. With the new United Nations climate treaty due to be discussed in Copenhagen in December, the pressure is mounting on India to agree to these policies.
Currently, India has stated that “this would hurt its economic growth and wants the industrialized world to curb its pollution as well as fund new technologies in the developing world by underlining that it has one of lowest emissions per capita in the world”. Many nations have started implementing policies to cut down carbon emissions. Though India has not agreed to legally binding limits it has committed itself to a mandatory fuel efficiency cap to begin in 2011, a change in its energy matrix whereby renewable sources will account for 20 per cent of India’s power usage by 2020 as well as announced an ambitious solar energy plan. If developed nations give adequate financial support and enabling technology to the developing world, there is a possibility that India might agree to the carbon emission measures.
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