Bush emphasised the need for creating a bridge between Europe and developing countries like India and China to ensure reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.
BERLIN: As Prime Minister Manmohan Singh prepares to ask the developed world at G-8 Summit tomorrow to share responsibility for fighting climate change, US President George W Bush today insisted that efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions would not succeed till India and China were involved.
Bush emphasised the need for creating a bridge between Europe and developing countries like India and China to ensure reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.
"By 2008, the world's emitters of greenhouse gases should come together," he told journalists after his meeting with British Prime Minister Tony Blair in Heiligendamm near here.
"Nothing is going to happen in terms of substantial reduction unless China and India participate," Bush said, adding "if we want them (India and China) at the table, it is important that we give them the opportunity to set an international goal."
India has held that countries responsible for creating the problem of climate change should come out in a big way to solve this issue.
It argues that the greenhouse gas emissions of developed countries even today are many times more than developing countries like India.
Singh is expected to remind the developed countries that as agreed in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, they should act in accordance with their "common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities".
He is also likely to emphatically state that climate change concerns should be integrated with development strategies.
Setting the tone for the meeting of leaders of Group of Eight industrialised nations with five outreach countries, the Prime Minister on Wednesday said "due care" must be taken not to allow growth and development of developing countries to be undermined while dealing with climate protection.
At the summit, Singh will bluntly tell the developed nations that more and not less development was the best way for developing countries to address the issues of preserving the environment and protecting the climate themselves.
Ahead of their meeting with G-8 leaders, the O-5 countries comprising India, China, Brazil, South Africa and Mexico will have a meeting here to outline their positions on global economy, climate change, protection of intellectual property rights, energy and environment.
Bush said the US was "actively involved "if not taking the lead, in a post-Kyoto framework for cutting emissions."
"We are taking steps necessary to be good stewards of the environment and at the same time advance technologies," the US President said.
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