While India will be pushed to keep a tight lid on its own carbon discharges, slow and low emission reduction by major polluters will cause an acceleration of climate change, says Rajni Bakshi.
The bilateral agreement on carbon emissions between the US and China on 12th November has far reaching implications for India.
“We have been hung out to dry” one Indian expert said in response to the agreement announced during US President Barack Obama’s visit to Beijing.
In this agreement both the US and China, the world’s two largest polluters, have made specific commitments to lower their CO2 emissions.
What the Sino-US climate deal means for India
Rajni Bakshi, Senior Gandhi Peace fellow, Gateway House article on the outcome of the recently signed China-US climate deal was republished by rediff.com