By Nitin Sethi
Times of India
September 6, 2011
NEW DELHI: The meeting was meant to review the work done two decades after the famed Rio summit or the UN meet on Environment and Development at Rio de Janeiro in 1992. But the Rio+20 conference is turning into another global ground to put green fetters on developing economies.
A proposal floated in the run-up to the main meeting has suggested “sustainable development goals” along the lines of millennium development goals. But the goals could turn into green chains on growth in emerging economies with goals like carbon emissions and fixed renewable energy content in energy mix being forced down in the name of sustainable development.
The proposal mooted by Columbia in a recently concluded meeting in Brazil in the run-up to the big jamboree has stirred heated debate about new channels being found to break the principle of “common but differentiated responsibility” and imposing common standards and targets for greening the economy across developed and developing world.
While another meeting on the issue is slated to be held in China this month, a ministerial round to be hosted in Delhi will see the new “green” game play out more openly with India and other developing countries bringing forth counter proposals.
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