It commits to the government of India to energy efficiency goal of 15 percent improvement in energy efficiency by the year 2007-2008, both of which are pretty significant in terms of India's energy supply. And essentially, I think the big picture for this is it represents real new progress together between India and the United States, working together on climate change and clean energy. I'm glad to answer any of your questions and give you further background about climate change. But essentially it's restarting EPA and DOE activities. So essentially it's saying in the clean energy and environment area, that we're lifting restrictions on any further impediments to cooperation.
Air pollution has human health impacts, environmental impacts, economic costs.
And I think they're in the process of restructuring their energy sector and improving efficiency, things of that nature. In terms of climate change, the U.S. is the largest emitter in this world of greenhouse gases, and I think India ranks somewhere between, depending on whose calculations, 5th, 6th, or 7th. But the growth in emissions from developing countries like India and China and others is going to be significant in the out-years. So the point of this exercise at some level is to be moving away from kind of a business as usual trajectory for emissions, so in that sense, it's significant, taking steps to addressing clean energy now. This site is produced and maintained by the U.S. Department of State.