Dr
Singh flew in here to attend the summit after a 10-hour flight from Los
Cabos in Mexico where he attended the 7th G-20 summit.
He is due to return home on Saturday night after an overnight halt at Pretoria, South Africa.
Rio summit to make fresh bid to tackle environment woes
A
crucial summit on global development kicks off in Rio de Janeiro on
Wednesday with nearly 20 heads of state and government, including Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh, in attendance in a fresh bid to rally the world
behind a common environmental blueprint amid economic woes and discord.
As
calls go out to world leaders to commit to reaching an accord that
addresses the most pressing environment and social woes, Dr Singh will
pitch for the principle of common but differentiated responsibility
during the meeting, 20 years after the first Earth Summit was held in
this Brazilian city.
US
President Barack Obama and leaders of Germany and Britain -- Angela
Merkel and David Cameron -- are not attending the two-day Summit,
officially called the United Nations Conference on Sustainable
Development.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is leading the US delegation.
India
will be negotiating to make sure that the Rio principles are reaffirmed
and all sustainable development will be viewed with the approach of
equity and common but differentiated responsibility so that developing
countries can have their share of development.
India is also expected to voice its opposition to the Green Economy norms as propagated by the European Union.
The
proposed "sustainable development goals," is a loose tripod of
economic, environmental and social objectives that proponents believe
could help guide global development.
Indian
officials feel that while EU might be quite ambitious about the Green
Economy, it has put undue focus on environmental dimensions ignoring
socio-economic issues.
It is feared that EU's position will slow down the economic growth of India through environmental restrictions.
India
is also apprehensive about the moves by the West on adopting
sustainable development goals without any international financing,
terming it as an attempt to blunt competition from developing countries.
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