India had made significant progress in the areas of information technology, pharmaceuticals and development of renewable energy devices. As a result of this India must lead the world in developing low carbon technologies, said Al Gore, Nobel laureate after launching the Climate Change Project in India in collaboration with The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI). India could lead the world to find a solution to the adverse impact of climate change, said Al Gore.

On India's stand, developing countries could not compromise their growth for cutting carbon emission as they were not responsible for increasing greenhouse gases, to which Gore said India should not miss the opportunity to make their development process adopt to greener and sustainable technologies

While India was highly vulnerable to the climate change crisis, there was also need for a change in US climate policy, Gore emphasised. He also stated that the US was the largest source of pollution and most responsible for creating the problem. It is the world's biggest emitter for decades accounting for more than 20 percent of the world's production of carbon dioxide emissions. But emissions have also rapidly grown in the developing world for example China is now in second place at 16 percent and India is among the top five emitters at six percent.

The 2009 global climate meet after the Bali meet in 2007, would aim at concluding a comprehensive new global climate treaty to replace the Kyoto Protocol by 2013.

Pachauri, Chairman of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change, that shared the 2007 Peace Nobel with Gore, said that the unprecedented understanding and knowledge was needed to tackle the "daunting challenge" of climate change.

Last month, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh urged rich countries to ensure technology transfers to developing nations to combat climate change under a transparent global regime.

Towards the end of 2007 India late called for a UN call for developing countries to cut carbon emissions by 20 percent over three decades starting in 2020, saying it did not "address the key issues of equality and equity."