India, Nov. 30 -- Nobody needs a fair and effective treaty more than the South, but they arent getting it. They should tell the North to listen, or go home.
It is time the Southern delegations put their foot down, just like the US has always done in climate change negotiations. Set your own terms and conditions and tell the EU and the Umbrella Group to accept them, or go jump into the North Sea.
Why is the US setting the terms for all the discussions here in the Hague? Simply because it is the biggest polluter and a Kyoto Protocol without it would be meaningless. The US uses this power to set terms and conditions. But as Western experts repeatedly tell us, if USA and EU are big polluters only today, India, China and Brazil will be equally...