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[Breaking News] WASHINGTON - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's special envoy on nuclear issues and climate change Shyam Saran is holding talks with the Obama administration focusing on cooperation in the field of renewable and clean energy. Saran Monday articulated India's view on how to tackle the crucial issue taking into account the concerns of developing and emerging economies at meetings with Todd Stern, US Special Envoy on Climate Change and Nancy Helen Sutley, chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality.

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[Breaking News] UN talks to forge new climate-change pact face myriad arguments ...: EU: China, India must make emissions cutsSTOCKHOLM ”” The chances of concluding a new global climate change pact remain dim unless China, India and Brazil make significant cuts in carbon dioxide emissions as well a senior Swedish climate change official said Thursday. Lars-Erik Liljelund, special climate change adviser to the Swedish government, said cuts from richer countries in the 27-nation bloc or planned cuts in the United States will not be enough to meet aims to cut at least 25 percent of emission from 1990 levels.

[Climate Matters @ Columbia] India's Climate Envoy: In Global Climate Treaties, Equity is ...: This and similar remarks that Saran has made in the past are a direct challenge to developed countries, designed to incentivize them to lower their per capita emissions before India’s have a chance to catch up. After all, if each of India’s more than a billion residents produced as much CO2 as the average American””though it should be noted that India’s total emissions are only projected to be about a fifth the United States’ by 2030””atmospheric CO2 concentrations would skyrocket.

[cop15.dk News] Westerners in need of a new lifestyle - COP15 United Nations ...: According to former British Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott, who was a key negotiator when the present international agreement on climate change, the Kyoto Protocol, was agreed in 1997, the coming UN negotiations in Copenhagen this December are “likely to collapse” unless a new deal implies sacrifices in the lifestyle of Western populations.

[Breaking News] China negotiator remains optimistic on global treaty at Copenhagen ...: US role in new climate treaty hinges on ChinaWASHINGTON ”” The United States is not likely to enter into a new international treaty to reduce the emissions blamed for global warming without China and other major greenhouse-gas emitters on board, the Obama administration's chief climate negotiator said Wednesday. U.S. climate envoy Todd Stern told reporters in a conference call that China and other major developing countries are critical to making any international agreement work, and there is not going to be a new treaty to curb greenhouse gases without them.

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