India has often been seen as an awkward customer in international processes. While this is indubitably true in the climate negotiations, it is not merely because of negotiating style. Rather, it is down to India’s complex national interests, which are no less pressing and from a political perspective arguably more knife-edge critical than those faced [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘decarbonisation’
March 26, 2010
Feeling the Stones
Deng Xiaoping (pictured) famously advocated a pragmatic approach to progress. ‘Cross the river by feeling the stones‘ he said. Is this cautious view of change in any way compatible with the measures needed to decarbonise economies? We ask this because there is quite clearly a significant gap between the positions of the US and China [...]
Matthew Lockwood
andrewpendleton
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