Climate change's super September gives way to an awkward October

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Apologies that it has been many weeks since I've written - it's not because I have been sitting idle! September was the busiest month working on climate change and energy issues in my year and a half in India. Internationally, we had UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon convening his High Level Meeting in New York, bringing together over a hundred Heads of State, including my Prime Minister Gordon Brown, to talk climate change. We had the G20 Summit in Pittsburgh where leaders discussed climate finance along with other top tier economic issues. We had key Ministers and lead negotiators from around the world meeting for the Greenland Dialogue and Major Economies Forum in the middle of the month. And official level delegations came together in Bangkok for the latest round of UN negotiations 28 September - 9 October. So the pace is certainly picking up as Copenhagen approaches. The....