Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has bluntly told the G8 industrialized nations that they cannot impose on India any targets on checking greenhouse gas emissions as the ‘’time is not ripe’’ for such a move. ‘’Of course there are demands on countries like China, India, Brazil to also accept obligations to reduce green house gas emissions and we said we have not come here to discuss targets or accept internationally enforced targets on us,’’ Dr Singh told reporters while returning from Germany after attending the summit of G8 with five outreach partners. South Africa and Mexico were the other outreach nations. Outrightly rejecting another move (of the US) to thrust climate-related targets on India and China, Dr Singh made it obvious that the per capita emissions of developing countries were not even a fraction of GHG released into the atmosphere by the industrialized nations. ’’I said well, developing countries accept their responsibilities. As an instance we could assure the world that at no time, our per capita emissions will exceed that of the developed countries,’’ he said. http://www.greaterkashmir.com/full_story.asp?Date=11_6_2007&ItemID=20&cat=21