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 Poverty as a posture? [1]

The road to next climate negotiation turns hostile as some developing nations are upgraded

RANIDHERA, a remote village in Chhattisgarh made a desperate attempt to join the elite club of Indian villages which gets a few hours of electricity, through the biodiesel route. The effort is limping as the local jatropha plantation did not take off. Thousands of villages are still waiting with cables, or cableless poles, or worse, just hope, to realize the electricity dream. That is exactly why, India has argued in international climate negotiations, for an exception to binding emissions cut. Developing nations need to grow to provide the vast poorer section its basic needs

Down to Earth [2]
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Biodiesel [3], Climate Change [4], Emission Targets [5], Climate Mitigation [6], Rural Electrification [7], China [8], India [9], Chhattisgarh [10], Developing Countries [11], European Union (EU) [12]
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