NEW DELHI: Australia and India are on the verge of entering into a "great economic' partnership said John McCarthy, the Australian High Commissioner to India. Addressing the second India Cleantech Forum organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry, he said that the success of the partnership "depends on how we promote growth today to tackle the central issues of climate change, sustainability and clean technologies which will be discussed in the forum today'.

Bloomberg / Toyako (Japan) July 09, 2008, 0:08 IST ...ask each country to pursue its own path in tackling global warming. Group of Eight leaders pledged to cut greenhouse gas emissions at least 50 per cent by 2050, while leaving each country to pursue its own path in tackling pollution blamed for global warming. The declaration at the G-8 in Toyako, Japan, included a promise to share the "vision" of a low-carbon economy with less developed nations, embracing calls by President that countries such as China and India be included in any climate accord.

K.Venugopal Sapporo: The leaders of the developed and the developing world still do not quite see eye to eye on which countries should be asked to shoulder the challenge of addressing climate change and on the scale of their individual efforts.

NEW DELHI: The Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has hoped that the ongoing G8 Summit in Japan would address the issue of biofuel policies, including subsidy that was contributing to the rising food prices, which could push an additional 100 million people into poverty.