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India: Climate Change’s Jekyll & Hyde

India: Climate Change’s Jekyll & Hyde

Posted on 10. Nov, 2009 by Ross.

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As Copenhagen approaches, countries are slowly but surely aligning their political commitments to carbon reduction in order to come to an effective and agreeable international agreement to avoid catastrophic climate change.
India, however, seems to still be reading a different script.
The signals emanating from India are constantly confusing and contradictory: just when India looks unmoveable on climate [...]

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India Unmoveable On Climate Change Commitments

India Unmoveable On Climate Change Commitments

Posted on 20. Jul, 2009 by Ross.

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Despite growing international pressure to commit to legally binding carbon emission targets at December’s Copenhagen climate change conference, India is continuing to robustly ignore criticism in its continuing surge towards economic development.
The presence of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton did little to dissuade Indian Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh from declaring that India would never [...]

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