Obama moves to break climate change deadlock

http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2008/s2611905.htm
RAJENDRA PACHAURI, IPCC (archive footage, Oct. 23, 2008): The United States of America consumes twice as much coal as India for a population of 300 million. If you look at the number of coal-fired power plants they have on the drawing board, they will exceed any number that you come up with for India. So, you know, why is it that we don't focus on that part of the world? Why are we signalling out India and China? Why doesn't the United States do away with coal-fired power stations?

MARGOT O'NEILL: But there's also disagreements about whether the world should aim to limit global warming to two degrees. Europe says it must; Australia agrees, but the US and India are actively blocking this target.

The key developing nations are China, Brazil, South Africa and India. They argue, with understandable force, that the developed world enjoyed all the economic benefits while creating the greenhouse gas problem in the first place, as pointed out by the head of the intergovernmental panel on climate change, Dr Rajendra Pachauri.
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