India ties solar plans to global climate support

[AlphaCentauri]

Source: Reuters

India issued solar power targets on Monday, with plans to boost ouptut from near zero to 20 gigawatts (GW) by 2022, but tied chances of the plan's success to availability of international finance and technology.

The announcement was made days before U.N. negotiations in Copenhagen for a global deal on climate change, deadlocked over levels of carbon emissions cuts to be taken by rich countries.

Talks are also stuck on financial and technological support to be given by rich countries to developing nations.

"India is making a very strong case for international support for its climate actions, but in the process it is also skirting its unilateral obligations," said Siddharth Pathak, Greenpeace's main climate campaigner in India.


Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-GreenBusiness/idUSTRE5AM2MQ20091123

[Uncle Joe]

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