Tuesday, September 22, 2009

The Hindu : Front Page : Climate talks: ‘wrong to blame India for deadlock’
United Nations: Blamed for the deadlock in climate change talks along with China, India has said it will be a “deal-maker” and not a “deal-breaker.”
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Mr. Ramesh said the present crisis on climate change was the “inability” of the United States to put on the table credible emissions reduction targets for 2020.

We are not part of the problem but we want to be part of the solution,” he said.
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Mr. Ramesh and climate change expert Rajendra Pachauri also underlined the need for the U.S. to bring about a “lifestyle change” to combat climate change.
China disappoints: Hu Jintao fails to deliver on climate change at the UN - Telegraph Blogs
Well, that was a damp squib. President Hu Jintao of China’s speech today on climate change at the UN in New York was hyped in advance all over the morning papers (though not in The Daily Telegraph, as it happened) as a huge breakthrough in the making in the international negotiations over forging a new agreement to get global warming under control...
Al Gore praises China, Japan on climate | watoday.com.au
"I think that China has provided impressive leadership," Gore told reporters.
Richard Littlemore | UN Climate Summit: Flickers of Hope, but the Building is Still Burning
When U.S. President Barack Obama went by, the parade looked like a single-handed, single-minded attempt to reinvigorate the market for stupidly huge vehicles. A Yew York cop said, "Look at this. Clinton probably had 20 of those things. Bush had about 40. But now this guy [this Barack Obama] has, like, 75. (That was an exaggeration, but perhaps not by much.)

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