New Delhi, India (AHN) – India plans to stress high quality and focused research on various aspects of climate change. The country will be seeking international collaboration to achieve the same.

“We have established an Indian Network for Comprehensive Climate Change Assessment, a network of over 120 research institutes, which will bring out regular reports on the impacts of climate change on different sectors and different regions of the country. The first such assessment will be released in November this year,” India’s prime minister, Manmohan Singh said while inaugurating a summit on Sustainable Development in New Delhi on Saturday.

Expressing his disappointment at the “limited achievements” of the Copenhagen summit, Singh said that that the purpose of the Copenhagen Accord is to “contribute to the negotiations on the Kyoto Protocol and on long term cooperation.”

Underlining the fact that climate action in developing countries needs to evolve around developmental goals, the PM said that sustainable development in India requires as much attention to the present as to the future.

“Climate action that delays or makes more difficult the basic task of poverty eradication will be difficult to implement,” the PM said.

The PM gave assurances of India’s commitment to sustainable development through a gradual shift from fossil fuels to renewable and clean energy, including nuclear energy.

“Within the ambit of our National Action Plan on Climate Change, India has already unveiled one of the world’s most ambitious plans for promoting solar energy, targeting an installed capacity of 20,000 MW by the year 2022,” the PM said.

The PM also said that the roots of modern day environmental problems lie in the current patterns of global production and consumption, which are not sustainable.

“We are living on an overdraft on Nature’s resources and this is already threatening the ecological balance, which is the basis of our survival,” PM Singh said.

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