Topic 3 – The Carbon Standoff
On December - 17 - 2009
“…climate change negotiations have become less about fashioning a truly collaborative global response to a planetary challenge and more about safeguarding and promoting competitive economic interests.”
Shyam Saran – India’s special envoy on Climate Change
While prima-facie it appears that it is the west which is playing a high-handed role in deciding the rules of the game on the emissions turf, the emerging economies too have been acting evasively. When the engine of the world’s growth is the emerging economies, it is, perhaps, time they stopped acting as the deprived younger sibling.
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