Though there is western pressure on India and China to make specific emission reduction commitments after 2012, both New Delhi and Beijing are doggedly resisting the pressure.

They argue that global warming was created by the industrialised nations, which should bear the responsibility of cleaning up the earth.

“The debate has not moved beyond who is victim and who is villain. We all have obligations but of course India and China cannot have the same obligation as the developed world,” said Mr. Blair who launched his “Breaking the Climate Deadlock” campaign here. 

The campaign has been launched recently in China and Japan where Mr Blair is trying to garner support for a global push to break the deadlock before 2009 climate summit in Copenhagen where the new climate change agreement — to come into effect after 2012 — will take shape.

Mr. Blair has met Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and young Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and Jyotiraditya Scindia and science minister Kapil Sibal to press for commitments from India.

“There will be many climate change consequences for India including food security, water and energy security,” he said.

The former British premiere who being the then G-8 chairman, introduced climate change in global political agenda at the Gleneagles G-8 summit in 2005 is the second high profile politician to visit India in the recent past.
Al Gore, a former USA Vice President and a champion of climate change issue, was in the capital last week end launching the India chapter of The Climate Project.

Mr. Gore, who helped formulate the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, also stated that the correct approach should be to think of the 21st century rather than comparing with what other countries did in the last century.