Prime minister Narendra Modi flagged off India’s presence at the Conference of Parties (COP21) on Nov. 30 with bold plans that will shape geopolitics well beyond the Paris summit.
But the backroom talk in Paris still depicts India as a spoiler. Indeed, there is an unspoken war being waged with India on one side and the US on the other. It is not so much about the right to put more carbon into the atmosphere but about future innovation and control of the 21st-century technologies that will shape the post-carbon economy.
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