Professor David Victor writes for Newsweek
Victor provides insight on energy efficiency in India
08/04/2009
David G. Victor,
Newsweek
Hillary Clinton's meeting with Jairam Ramesh was an awkward moment in an otherwise smooth visit to India last month. The Indian environment minister lectured Clinton that India would not commit to cuts in its emissions of the gases that cause global warming. India has other priorities, he said, such as getting electricity to 400 million poor people in the hinterlands.
The scolding followed a familiar script, in which India rebuffs any rich nation that tries to impose limits on its economic growth. But Ramesh was battling a straw man. The U.S. is urging India to follow a less emissions-intensive pattern of growth, not to make painful cuts. Ramesh made India look much more recalcitrant, and less green, than it really is.
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