India snubs West on climate change

India will not curb its greenhouse gas emissions as long as the West continues to treat it as a ’second class global citizen’ with less right to pollute than the developed world, a senior Indian environment official has said.

Pradipto Ghosh, who retired last month as India’s environment secretary and now sits on a committee advising India’s prime minister on climate change, warned that the West must “get serious” about its own cutting emissions if it wanted progress on the issue.

telegraph