China, India not ready to cut emissions – U.N. official

Developing countries are unlikely to commit to curbing their rising carbon emissions because they believe rich nations are not doing enough to tackle global warming, a top United Nations official said on Monday.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair told Britain’s Guardian newspaper last week he wanted to bring five fast-growing nations into the G8 group of industrialised countries to help secure a new global deal on climate change when the U.N. Kyoto Protocol on cutting greenhouse gases runs out in 2012.

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