New Delhi: Nobel laureate and former vice president of US Al Gore is in India to push the climate cause. He gave his lecture on global warming to members of the Parliament on Friday.
Gore also launched the 'The Climate Project' in India along with The Energy Resource Institute.
This is US based organisation founded by Gore to spread awareness on global warming.
Even as India faces pressure from the US government to make binding cuts in green house gas emissions, Al Gore publicly sided with the India in saying that it should be a voluntary exercise.
Gore said, “People in developing nations and faster developing nations like India have the right to aspire to higher standards of living and have the right to set goals that are appropriate.”
Asked about the differences between developed and developing countries on greenhouse gas emission cuts, Gore said fast developing nations like India has a right to aspire for higher standard of living and set whatever goals they think is appropriate.
Using 21st century-efficient technologies is the relevant issue today, not the comparison in emissions by countries, he said.
"India itself is vulnerable to effects of climate change and can be a part of the solution," he said.
Gore said there is need for a change in the US policy on climate and whoever comes to the White House after the November presidential polls will have to take necessary steps.
"My country is the largest source of pollution and most responsible for creating the problem. We need a change in policy in the US," said the environmental activist who has won an Oscar for his documentary on global warming, "An Inconvenient Truth".
(With PTI inputs)
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