In what may come handy for India and China, which are under pressure to agree on cutting down emission of greenhouses gases, a scientific report has debunked this very strategy to tackle the impact of global warming and climate change.
The 'Civil Society Report on Climate Change' prepared by the Civil Society Coalition on Climate Change -- a conglomerate of 40 scientific think-tanks from as many countries, including the US, the UK and Italy -- that was released today clearly says that 'cutting greenhouse gas emissions in the coming two decades is not a cost-effective way to address climate change".
The report was released by deputy chairperson of the Planning Commission, Montek Singh Ahluwalia.
Calling the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change approach 'alarmist' for its singular focus on reduction of emissions of five harmful GHGs, the report says 'the Kyoto protocol that was seen as the first step on the road to reducing global emission of GHGs has barely made a dent in those emissions --