Climate policy in present form risk to Indias rights
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04/06/2008
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Times Of India (New Delhi)
Council To Rephrase Document, Finalize It by Month-End The PM's Climate Change Council on Monday averted an embarrassment for India in the global arena by pointing out how the draft domestic climate change action policy could compromise India's international stance that had been defended at the UN conference on climate change in December 2007 at Bali by science and technology minister Kapil Sibal. India has led the G-77 countries grouping over the last two decades to establish that developing countries have a right to reduce poverty and spread development gains across their poor before addressing climate change challenges because developed countries are the primary culprits behind global warming. But the draft document, council members on Monday pointed out, put this