India and Copenhagen

Here is my annotated article, it isn't very messy so I will not put the original one because it is 13 pages...

URL: http://www.climate-leaders.org/wp-content/uploads/qa-on-indias-position-on-cc-27-feb.pdf

















Precis:
The Indian view on the climate change differs maybe from other countries, due to fact that India considers herself as a developing country. This is where the problem, in the eyes of the worlds, lies. Many people think, including the interviewer, that India is not a developing country. However, throughout the interview India always refers back to the fact that America and China should do it like that, HOWEVER India cannot follow them since they are still developing and need to use more emissions. Even though, India is the third country on the list of emissions, it does not consider herself as a ‘major emitter’ because they are still developing and only emit 4% of the world CO2 emissions, whereas the USA and China make 14% of the worlds emissions. Not only does India stress that she is developing, having social problems, poverty and overpopulation she also keeps repeating that India needs help. India needs to adapt to the climate change because they are having major problems. This is of course true, due to major droughts, storms and the Tsunami in 2004 which are all problems which arose due to the climate destabilization. However, India is not the only country which is having these problems but also other countries are facing changes, but India thinks and keeps repeating throughout the interview that they need advanced technology, and help to adapt to the situation. The first question in the interview is the expectation of India in this conference: they answer adaption, technology and finances. These three aspects are then used over and over again in the article to stress the horrible situation. Therefore, one may say that this interview gives a clear and helpful position on the thought of India, and states that they will cut emissions; however the world must consider that they are a developing country.


I did not finish the article, because the rest of it was not important, however one may read it to get more detail about the economics of India.