(16 Feb 2005) SHOTLIST

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1. Wide of a power plant chimney spewing smoke into the air; traffic in foreground
2. Close-up of smoke emerging from mouth of chimney
3. Various of traffic and vehicular pollution

February 15, 2005
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Sunita Narain, Director, Centre for Science and Environment:
"The Kyoto protocol has to be looked at from one hand as putting correct the injustice that existed in the world. It is also an opportunity, as I said, for a new kind of collaboration. It isn't as if India and China want to go up the path to hell, it isn't as if India and China want to pollute, but as yet those technologies which provide for zero emissions, which provide for a non-carbon based trajectory, just don't exist. So this is the opportunity, if the rest of the world can work together with India and China and can put their money where their mouth is and make sure that you can actually assist technologies which give us both growth as well as zero emissions. We will be then in a real win-win situation."

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5. Wide of skyline showing chimneys
6. Generator emitting smoke
7. Various of emissions from vehicles
8. Various of vehicular pollution check in progress
9. Man sticking 'pollution under control' sticker on his car's windshield
10. Close-up of sticker

STORYLINE

With the Kyoto Protocol coming into force on Wednesday, environmentalists in India have welcomed it as a first step towards working together to control pollution in the world.

Sunita Narain, director of the New Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment, says it's an opportunity for the world to come together and help emerging economies like India and China avoid going the way of industrialised nations.

India and China aren't bound by the Kyoto protocol to cut down emissions of greenhouse gases.

Its binding restrictions apply to only 35 industrialised countries, committed to reducing or limiting output of six gases, chiefly carbon dioxide, a by-product of burning coal and oil products.

Narain says the protocol lacks teeth because the big polluters, like United States and Australia, aren't taking part.

By 2012, the European Union is to reduce emissions by eight percent below 1990 levels, and Japan by six percent.

The United States, which envisaged a seven percent reduction, signed the protocol in 1997. But the US Senate refused to ratify the agreement, citing potential damage to the US economy and demanding that such emerging polluters as China and India be covered.

Narain says for the Kyoto Protocol to be a success, newer and cleaner mechanisms must reach the less developed nations. It's important, she says, because climate change affects the population of less developed nations the most.

The Kyoto Protocol, an adjunct to the 1992 UN treaty on climate change, has been ratified by 140 nations.

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