Washington: US President George W Bush has set a timeline of 2025 for reducing emissions and accused India and China of emitting increasingly large quantities of greenhouse gases with consequences for the global climate.

"It is now time for the US to look beyond 2012 and to take the next step. We've shown that we can slow emissions growth. Today, I'm announcing a new national goal: to stop the growth of US greenhouse gas emissions by 2025," Bush said in his address at the White House.

Bush said that the Kyoto Protocol would have required the US to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The impact of this agreement, however, would have been to limit our economic growth and to shift American jobs to other countries - while allowing major developing nations to increase their emissions.

"Countries like China and India are experiencing rapid economic growth - and that's good for their people and it's good for the world. This also means that they are emitting increasingly large quantities of greenhouse gases - which has consequences for the entire global climate," Bush said.

"So the United States has launched - and the G8 has embraced - a new process that brings together the countries responsible for most of the world's emissions. We're working toward a climate agreement that includes the meaningful participation of every major economy - and gives none a free ride," he said.

Source : PTI