I will be chief climate change negotiator: Jairam Ramesh
None of the two former negotiators - former Indian diplomat Chandrashekhar Dasgupta and former environment secretary Prodipto Ghosh - are in the team.Flashback: WSJ interview with Ramesh
Dasgupta was also unhappy with the way Ramesh handled the climate change talks at Copenhagen and had signalled that he won't be part of the new negotiating team.
[Ramesh]: "The climate world is divided into three: the climate atheists, the climate agnostics, and the climate evangelicals. I'm a climate agnostic."
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A nation of 1.2 billion people, India has long understood that climate-change "intervention" pushed by the U.N., green activists and Al Gore (an "evangelical," snorts Mr. Ramesh)—namely, binding emissions targets—was code for giving up cheap energy sources in exchange for economically unproven technologies.... The minister, a self-confessed "China realist," is no political naïf: "We are united in our desire not to have a binding agreement thrust upon us which will constrict our developmental options."
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There is one more catagory " The Climate Oppotunists". These are people who see a financial opportunity independent of what their own beliefs are.
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