India: Deal Maker or Deal Breaker?

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🗓️ 13 November 2009

⏱️ 18 minutes

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India: Deal Maker or Deal Breaker? India plays a critical role in the global climate chess game. It’s hard line stance has been softening slightly recently as the Copenhagen negotiations approach. What is India’s approach to the international negotiations? What are the prospects for reforming its electricity sector? How is clean technology faring in India now? These questions are addressed by Varun Rai, a Research Fellow at Stanford University’s Program on Energy and Sustainable Development, and Alexis Ringwald, a co-founder of Valence Energy and a co-organizer of the Climate Solutions Road Tour in India. This program was recorded at The Commonwealth Club of California in San Francisco on October 6, 2009 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.8	Welcome to this podcast of Climate One at the Commonwealth Club.
0:32.7	I'm Greg Dalton, the founder of Climate One.
0:35.0	Today our topic is India.
0:36.7	India comes up quickly in any conversation of global carbon emissions and reductions,
0:42.2	the world's fifth largest emitter, and today we have two experts with us to discuss India and climate change and clean energy.
0:48.8	Maroon Rai is a research fellow in program on energy and sustainable development at Stanford University, and Alexis
0:55.3	Ringwald is co-founder of Valence Energy and a former Fulbite scholar in India. Welcome to you both.
1:01.0	Thank you. So, Farron, let's start with you and give us the big picture. India is often seen
1:06.8	as a country that's more reticent to make mandatory commitments or reductions.
1:12.7	So where are they – we're a couple of months going into Copenhagen,
1:16.2	and what's India's position with regard to sort of the big geopolitical picture
1:20.5	on what they're willing to do on climate change?
1:23.3	Sure.
1:24.6	India's position going into the climate change negotiations at Copenhagen are, I think, pretty much what we knew a few years ago,
1:33.6	which is no mandatory emission cut.
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