18/7/2009. ClLIMBDOWN ON 2 DEGREE CELSIUS CLAUSE DONE AS A LAST RESORT :

India's chief climate change negotiator Shyam Saran spoke exclusivley to Times of India ( one of india's news paper ) as he tried to explain the Indian position on the crucial negotiations which will intensify in the long run upto the Copenhagen 15 .

While the 2 degree is a compromise , PM''s special envoy Shyam Saran told journalists in Italy , " We do not regard this as an arithemetic target ; we regard this as a political decision because there is great deal of uncertainty with respect to what would be actual rise in temperature , what would be the consequences of the that rise of temperature . It's the compromise on 2 degree C" that the former negotiator ,Surya Sethi has challenged , saying it would hinder India's development .

So this news about india compromising and its negotiator saying that they regard it as a political decision and not a arithemetic target in my opinion is really a sad news . Developing countries like India , instead of always blaming the westerners needs to keep in check their own pollution rates and must deal with it firmly . By doing that they can easily pressurise the westerners to clamp down their carbon emmision . Lets not always keep on fighting for who gets the bigger bitter cake .