India has expressed dissatisfaction with a United Nations report that suggests developing countries should reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 20 percent below 1990 levels by 2050. The report, released by the UN Development Programme, emphasizes the urgent need for collective action to prevent severe climate change, particularly impacting the disadvantaged. Montek Singh Ahluwalia, deputy chairman of India's Planning Commission, criticized the report for calling on developing nations to make commitments for the first time, challenging the research team to provide further evidence to support their recommendations. Ahluwalia spoke as a guest at the Indian launch of the report, which precedes a UN climate summit in Bali, Indonesia. The summit will involve discussions on future commitments to reduce carbon emissions, which are believed to be the main cause of climate change. The UN report emphasizes the importance of quantitative commitments from developing countries for the credibility of any agreement. However, India and other developing nations argue that committing to binding cuts would be unfair and hinder their efforts to alleviate poverty. They believe that wealthy nations, which became prosperous through extensive use of fossil fuels during industrialization, should bear the responsibility for making significant cuts. Despite making up a significant portion of the global population, Indians are responsible for a relatively small fraction of total carbon emissions, according to data from the UN. India's slow progress plays a role in this, as many rural Indians, around 500 million, still lack access to electricity and rely on traditional, polluting fuels like cow dung and wood. However, there are those who believe that India can achieve both development and emission reduction by investing in more sustainable energy sources instead of relying heavily on coal. Indian scientist Rajendra Pachauri, a Nobel Peace Prize winner and member of India's Council on Climate Change, has warned against following the carbon-intensive development path of wealthier nations.