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Jairam Ramesh, India\u2019s minister for environment and forests, spoke to the Foreign Correspondents\u2019 Club in Beijing on Sunday. Many of his remarks focused on Copenhagen climate-change summit in December. The Hindu<\/em> reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n

China would have been left completely isolated at last December’s climate summit in Copenhagen, if it had not been for India’s backing, Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh has said.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Recognition from China’s \u201ctop leadership\u201d that Indian support was \u201cabsolutely essential\u201d for China at the talks, following an \u201cambush\u201d by the West, had now even led to an improvement in bilateral relations after a year of hostilities, Mr. Ramesh told journalists on Sunday.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWe were critical to China at Copenhagen. The Chinese know, in their heart of hearts, that we saved them from isolation,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is not an exaggeration to say that the top Chinese leadership acknowledges the Copenhagen spirit, and the cooperation between India and China, as a very positive outcome.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Ramesh also refuted a recent article in Der Spiegel<\/em><\/a> that suggested India made a last-minute decision to back China in the negotiations. From The Hindu<\/em> again:<\/p>\n

Mr. Ramesh said the article \u201cwas not accurate.\u201d \u201cIndia and China argued \u00a0that if you were to impose this constraint [of capping global emissions] without working out a formula to ensure equity in burden-sharing, the development space for countries like India and China would get \u00a0circumscribed,\u201d he said. \u201cThat is why we argued for setting a global goal\u00a0of limiting temperature increase [instead].\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

I attended the talk \u2013 and beyond the Copenhagen post-mortem, I found Ramesh\u2019s remarks about the revitalised relationship between India and China interesting. In particular, Ramesh emphasised that this \u201cCopenhagen spirit\u201d had wider strategic objectives, including increased cooperation in water resources, the low-carbon economy, glacier monitoring and forestry.<\/p>\n

On the issue of water resources, Ramesh said there remain great fears in India about a possible Chinese diversion of the Yarlung Zangbo River<\/a>, a transboundary river that rises in Tibet and runs through disputed territory in north-eastern India, before it becomes the Brahmaputra River in India and the Jamuna River in Bangladesh. However, China and India now have an agreement on sharing hydrological data on the river and China has for the first time admitted to building a hydroelectric project<\/a> on the Yarlung Zangbo: a sign of increased openness and the renewed post-COP15 relationship, said Ramesh. He added that since this is a run-of-the-river hydroelectric project, it was not of such great concern to India. A water-diversion project, he said, would be a different matter (not only for India, but also Bangladesh). There is no water-sharing treaty on the river.<\/p>\n

On green tech \u2013 which he described as a \u201cstrategic objective\u201d following a \u201cparadigm shift\u201d in the Indian leadership \u2013 Ramesh said it was a \u201cmatter of deep regret\u201d to him that India fell behind China in terms of low-carbon industry: its solar energy programme started in 1982, he said, and its wind power development in 1984. He also said that India and China were moving forward with cooperation on glacier monitoring.<\/p>\n

The minister focused a number of times on critics of the \u201cbonhomie\u201d between China and India. Many Indians, for example, point out how China is a far larger greenhouse-gas emitter than India. And politicians in the United States too, Ramesh said, are uncomfortable about India finding common cause with China. But, he continued, \u201cAs an Indian, I have to deal with both G1<\/a> and G2<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: Ananth Krishnan has written a summary of Ramesh’s remarks on the Brahmaputra at The Hindu<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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