The main rationality behind the impetus being given to LCSs is that if Asian countries are to pursue short-term economic growth and delay actions to tackle climate change, it would lead to reinforcement of energy intensive infrastructures and make it difficult for the countries to achieve sustainable development. So the main idea behind the low carbon struggle is to identify leapfrogging of carbon intensive activities in development pathways and the identification of co-benefits of such low carbon economies and low-resource consumption societies.