While visiting India, U. S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton praised India's efforts to reduce carbon emissions. Looking ahead she said the United States and India can work together to reduce industrial emissions blamed for an increase in global temperatures. But India's environment minister said his country won't agree to legally binding limits on greenhouse gases.
India was among the emerging economies that agreed earlier this month to work toward limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit). Still, India's Environment Minister, Jairam Ramesh took issue with suggestions that his government was running away from that commitment. He said India is simply not in a position to take on legally binding emissions reduction targets.
India's economy is growing at about 8% per year, a boom that has lifted a growing slice of its roughly 1 billion people out of poverty, and the nation has objected to calls for strict limits on carbon emissions. Still, Clinton says that the U.S. believes there is a way to eradicate poverty while still lowering the carbon footprint.
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