India and Global Climate Change belongs to that happy genre of books that are written pedantically and don't make many concessions for lay readers. But if you persevere you will be rewarded because the subject itself is so gripping. And that is because among the myriad conversations taking place on saving the environment, the debate on climate change is one of the faster evolving ones. This book is an eloquent testimony to that. Just five years ago, Jeremy Leggett, an oilman . turned Greenpeace crusader, wrote a book called The Carbon War. It told the story of the fight to get the world to accept the threat of global warming, culminating in the Kyoto Protocol (1999). Between then and now the debate on global warming has come a long way. Global warming is now common wisdom. And if you recall Kyoto, the main bone of contention was between the developed and developing countries. The latter argued for increased pressure on the former to cut back on emissions, while insisting that their (developing countries) emission levels must be permitted to rise. Otherwise, they feared their economic growth might be hampered. This has led to the idea that (greenhouse gas) GHG emissions should be the same per capita across the world