India Will Resist Pressure From U.S. on Carbon Emissions Caps - Bloomberg.com

July 19 (Bloomberg) -- India will resist pressure from the Obama administration to accept legally binding caps on its carbon emissions, the South Asian nation’s environment minister told visiting Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

“There is simply no case for the pressure that we, who have been among the lowest emissions per capita, face to actually reduce emissions,” Jairam Ramesh said at a meeting today with Clinton in Gurgaon near New Delhi, according to a statement he issued to reporters. “And as if this pressure was not enough, we also face the threat of carbon tariffs on our exports to countries such as yours.”

Per Capita Emissions Of India Will Never Exceed Developed Nation: Ramesh

New Delhi: Minister of State for Environment and Forests, Jairam Ramesh, has said that India will never India’s per capita emissions will never exceed developed nations’: Jairam Rameshallow its per capita emissions to exceed that of the developed countries.

[It's difficult to live like Al Gore on under $1.25 a day]: Poverty in India - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The World Bank estimates that 456 million Indians (42% of the total Indian population) now live under the global poverty line of $1.25 per day (PPP). This means that a third of the global poor now reside in India.