The Indian Environment Minister, Jairam Ramesh, has stood on a podium with Hilary Clinton in India and spectacularly denounced her call for India to submit to binding emissions cuts.
After listening to Clinton say "it is essential for major developing countries, like India, to also lead because over 80% of the growth in future emissions will be from developing countries. So climate change would not be solved, even if developed countries stopped emitting greenhouse gas emissions today" Ramesh responded with this: "India's position is clear and categorical that we are simply not in a position to take any legally binding emissions reductions."
Watch the report on Indian TV here.
Some commentators have indicated that the US-Indian relationship may have deteriorated somewhat since Obama took office.
The refusal of the main developing countries, like India, China and Brazil, to accept binding emissions cuts is being highlighted by climate realists who say, even if you are a proponent of anthropogenic global warming, forcing developed nations to cut emissions while allowing India, China and Brazil to continue developing will decimate western competitiveness and drive down the standard of living even faster, while not doing anything to reduce overall global emissions.
The question now is, will their be a new destabilisation of India under Trilateraloid auspices?
