NEW DELHI: Contending that developing nations account for a significant share in green house gas emissions, Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt said such countries are vital to the solution to tackle global warming.
"More than 50% of the global greenhouse gas emissions are from the developing countries... we have to do this together," he said in an interaction with students of TERI University here.
Reinfeldt indicated that it would be incorrect to say that only the rich nations have to sort out the problem of climate change.
"There will be a group of emerging economies that will be vital to how to solve this problem," he said adding that countries like China, Indonesia, India, Brazil, South Africa and Mexico were too crucial for success of the plans to tackle climate change.
Reinfeldt made a strong pitch for reaching an agreement on a successor to the Kyoto Protocol at Copenhagen talks in December and said the absence of a clear deal would mean lack of infrastructure to tackle climate change.
He said the US also needs to be part of the climate change agreement as leaving out the biggest emitter would not be good for the planet.
