By IRNA
New Delhi : Negotiators from around the world were getting to work on Monday on drafting a battle plan against global warming that a top UN official warned could be the most complicated treaty in history.
Amid growing global concerns over climate change, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Monday favoured creation of financial mechanisms by the international community to promote environment-friendly technologies and their transfer to developing nations to deal with the problem.
At a meeting to discuss a Strategy Paper on Climate Change by renowned British economist Nicholas Stern, Singh also pressed for promotion of environmentally-sustainable development to deal with the challenge of global warming.
During the meeting Stern, the I G Patel Professor at the London School of Economics, commended India’s efforts to understand and address the challenges of climate change.
“The international community should consider creating financial mechanisms that will promote environment friendly technologies, transfer of such technologies to developing countries and promote environmentally sustainable development to deal with the challenge of Global Warming and Climate Change,” Singh said.
The government is awaiting the National Action Plan on Climate Change to be drawn by the Prime Minister’s Council on Climate Change.
The meeting was attended by Finance Minister P Chidambaram, Earth Sciences Minister Kapil Sibal, Deputy Chairman Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia, member Planning Commission Kirit Parekh, Nandan Nilekani of Infosys Technologies and senior officials.
Meanwhile, negotiators from around the world were meeting in Bangok on Monday on drafting a battle plan against global warming that a top UN official warned could be the most complicated treaty in history.
The talks come amid a growing consensus between rich and poor countries that the world must take action to halt climate change, which UN scientists warn could put millions of people at risk by century’s end.