This is a controversial issue in the context of the imperative for consorted efforts of the international community to reduce the carbon emission and an equally important national agenda of overcoming electricity, more broadly energy shortage many developing countries are facing. Even worse, in many cases, the debate escalates into the issue of who should bear the greater burden of carbon containment between developed and developing countries.

True, pure focus on energy security by developing countries will risk the uncontrolled carbon emissions, leading to growing competition for dirty energy source among them, undermining the safety of the environment and clean atmosphere. However, we also have to heed to the developing countries' concerns that they are shouldering the brunt of economic loss due to energy shortage without employing the dirty energy generation as the necessary evil while the developed countries had historically enjoyed the economic benefits of energy generation without such constraints.

This debate does not seem to have a clear winner nor will offer a productive outcome. The best solution is to forge concession from both sides. Developing countries should make more efforts to gear towards environment friendly source of energy generation and developed countries should provide to developing countries more assistance both financial and technical. We should recognize that the earth is our common asset which can only be preserved by the efforts of all parties concerned, not by only one party.

Source: http://tribune.com.pk/story/673600/solution-to-energy-crisis-pakistan-sets-sights-on-coal/