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India's Climate Change Opportunity
2014-11-30 17:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: India lags far behind rival China in wealth and development -- and also in the amount of carbon dioxide it spews into the atmosphere. Indian leaders say this explains why they shouldn't be expected to limit their greenhouse-gas output as China has just done. At global climate talks in Lima this week, they'll probably also point out that 1 in 4 Indians still lacks electricity, so the country can't afford any limits on economic growth. In fact, India's relatively low level of development is exactly...
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