India can't play the victim on climate change | Kapil Komireddi | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

India can't play the victim on climate change | Kapil Komireddi | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk: "India can't play the victim on climate change

Its poor may have small carbon footprints, but that is a specious excuse for not taking a global lead on the issue

o Kapil Komireddi
o guardian.co.uk, Sunday 27 September 2009 12.00 BST
o Article history

The Copenhagen conference on climate change will most likely fail. And two parties will bear the principal responsibility for its failure: the United States and India. No one should be surprised by President Hu Jintao's pledge to significantly reduce his country's CO2 emissions. Beijing's dictatorship is keen to assuage international anxieties. But Washington and New Delhi cannot indulge international opinion at the expense of alienating their domestic constituencies."