A Binding effort to combat climate change....How far is it fare??

Greenhouse gases greatly affect the temperature of the Earth In recent years there has been a rapid increase in earth's surface temperature ( see graph) because human activities specially industrialization has contributed a lot to increase the emission of these greenhouse gases.Scientists have revealed that there can be increse of 4-5 degree celcius temperature by 2010.

The increase in greenhouse gases in atmosphere has resulted in frequent melt down of glaciers that resulted in floods and other natural calamities. The melting of ice at the poles had led the rise of mean sea level. And further increase in temperature may further melt the ice and lead to further increase in mean sea level, which will engulf low lying countries. Also there is a change in their life style of animals because of the changes in the seasons. The migrating birds have changed their time of travel and also their place of migration. The animals who can't change their lifestyle accordingly with this changing climate are on the verge of extinction.

Source: http://www.earth-policy.org/

The largest producers of these greenhouse gases are the thermal power plants, which burn the fossil fuels and produce these gases in large quantities. The second biggest sources of these green house gases are the road vehicles and industries.

To combat this climate change, representatives of more than 118 countries are conglomerating in danish capital in Copenhagen climate change summit. The idea there is to bind every country to cut a certain percentage of carbon emission. It is an elaborate conspiracy by the developed world to throttle growth in the developing countries.We shall not bind ourselves to accept such binding commitments on cutting carbon emissions. We shall just voluntarily cut our carbon emission rates.

India is about 17% of humanity, but accounts for less than 5% of total greenhouse gas emissions. America's emission levels are 18 times to that of India. We are the fastest growing economy and our emission levels will grow. Any attempt to cap India’s emissions will mean restricting India’s ability to grow and that is not at all acceptable. It's not we, but the developed countries who have done mass damage to this environment by uttering these gases in exchange of their economic development. Thus the majority of responsibility goes to developed countries for reversing and mitigating this damage.
But India cannot turn around just on this claim that it does not need to do anything. As the second fastest growing economy after China, India has to offer the world something, specially when countries like China, Indonesia and Brazil have announced their measures to combat climate change.The way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is to raise energy efficiency.We shall substitute fuels that generate more greenhouse gases with fuels that generate less. We shall move towards solar energy.Our target is to have 22,000 MW of solar energy by 2022.The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere can also be reduced by growing more trees and plants. This will also help us to reduce pollution.