If countries like India actually believed that CO2 would kill their grandchildren, would they behave this way?

Shared vision for world on climate change? India sceptical

Poznan (Poland), Dec 2 (IANS) Industrialised countries talked about a “shared vision for long-term cooperative action” on climate change while countries like India expressed scepticism if there could be any such shared vision at all as the annual climate change conference got down to business here Tuesday.As nearly 3,000 delegates from 186 national governments started haggling over most words in every document expected to come out of the Dec 1-12 summit in this western Poland city, and over 5,000 NGO representatives started chivvying them towards the common goal of combating climate change, the devil in the details remained.
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The bureaucrat, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said India would watch how negotiations over the common shared vision developed over this week and much of the next before firming up its position.

“We have no problem shifting to greener sources of generating energy,” he said, “as long as we get the necessary technology and financing.”