No Commitments please, we're Indian!

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One of our policy roadmaps, and indeed a lot of international pressure on India in the coming days, will revolve around our course of action on climate change. Climate change; that word & its doomsday implications that still draw skeptical guffaws in our newsroom. Going green may sound hip but its not easy to sit everyone down and explain that global surface temperatures are infact rising at unparalleled levels, must faster than they did in the previous inter-glacial period. That the total carbon in the atmosphere 650 thousand years ago was under 300 parts per million, today its crossed 380, & that's not exactly nature going through its usual cycle. That rising fuel prices, water scarcity, farmer suicides, cyclones in Bangladesh, floods in Bihar, and wildfires in California are really part of a larger pattern that are likely to become more frequent & more dire, wreaking havoc on millions....