India PM Describes as “Slow” Negotiations on Climate Change
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today described as “painfully slow” climate change negotiations and recalled the greatest responsibility of industrialized countries for emissions of greenhouse gases.
Singh urged the community of nations to take measures to promote the use of clean energy and said that in recognition of the importance of developing a strategy for low carbon cosumo inclusive and sustainable growth, India will double by 2017 its capacity renewable energy.
He stressed that under any principle of equity, industrialized countries must shoulder much of the burden in this regard to be “historically responsible for the bulk of emissions of greenhouse gases accumulated, which in itself suggests a greater responsibility. “
Inaugurating the Fourth Ministerial Meeting here on Clean Energy, he noted that these issues have been the subject of intense debates in the climate change negotiations are conducted under the auspices of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change .
But progress in these negotiations are painfully slow, he said.
After exposing the imperiousness of stabilizing global temperatures to acceptable levels, urged States to promote the exchange of information and identify possible areas of collaboration in order to benefit from each other’s experiences in dealing with common problems.
He said that India is prepared to take advantage of clean energy sources like solar, wind and biomass, with the goal of raising of 25000-55000 MW generation capacity in the next five years.
Granted that such decisions are constrained by being more expensive energy from that source than conventional, but noted that the costs should fall.
India is a big market for the production of such equipment and also a potential competitive production base to supply other countries, he said.
Therefore or “pointed or” strongly recommend global manufacturers to establish production facilities in these areas.
Latin American Countries in the OAS Support Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro
Representatives of Latin American nations in the Organization of American States (OAS) including Nicaragua, Peru, Ecuador, Uruguay, Argentina and the Dominican Republic have declared their support for the election of Nicolas Maduro as president of Venezuela.
Representatives of Latin American countries in the Organization of American States (OAS) on Wednesday endorsed President-elect of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, after his victory at the polls last April 14.
During a regular meeting at the agency’s headquarters, the representative of Nicaragua to the agency wished, on behalf of his people and government, “the greatest success” to Nicolas Maduro elected by popular will as head of state of Venezuela, for the period 2013 to 2019.
He congratulated the Venezuelan people “on the democratic election day” held last Sunday.
The delegate from Ecuador expressed “we support the democratic process in Venezuela and support your efforts for the future and reconciliation and for peace in that country”, meanwhile, the representative from Argentina ratified the way the peaceful nature of the electoral process .
Meanwhile Argentina’s representative read a statement in which “the people and the Argentine Government express their congratulations to President Nicolas Maduro on his election victory (…) The people have ratified the revolutionary path of Hugo Chavez by building unity and solidarity in Latin America, “he added.
He stressed that “we will accompany Argentine President Maduro while continuing the work ratified by the democratic exercise of its citizens.”
The delegate of Uruguay, representing the member countries of the Union of South American Nations (Unasur), congratulated the Venezuelan people for their extensive involvement in the presidential elections and reaffirmed the commitment with President Maduro for further regional integration.
The Colombian commission noted that the election results issued by the National Electoral Council (CNE) of Venezuela must be respected under the ruling of the Chair of the organ, Tibisay Lucena.
For his part, the representative of the Republic of Peru, also welcomed, and endorsed Venezuela’s elected president, Nicolas Maduro.
The delegate of Brazil also joined the other delegations greeting to the people and Government of Venezuela for the election of Nicolas Maduro.
More than 30 nations have recognized and congratulated the victory of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela, including Argentina, Ecuador, Cuba, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Brazil, Panama, Chile, Colombia, Uruguay, Peru, Guatemala , Haiti, Palestine, Russia, and China.
Germany Cuts Economic Growth Prospects
Germany’s main economic institutes cut their 2013 growth prospects for the country, placing it at 0.8 percent, according to the national press.
The figure, which will be officially made public on Thursday, is a backward step in comparison to the 1.0 percent previously predicted.
However, the report of the institutes is more optimistic that that of the government, which predicts a 0.4 percent for 2013 due to the effects of the crisis in the Eurozone.
A 1.9 percent of growth of the Gross Domestic product is predicted for 2014.
Via PL