A cable recording a meeting of US special envoy on climate change Todd Stern with Ahluwalia in August 2009 records, "Deputy Planning Commissioner Montek Singh Ahluwalia told S/E Stern that the developing countries' rhetoric regarding historical responsibility was a negotiating tool and while India publicly projected that it had no intention of reducing emissions, it was putting in place measures to deploy wind and solar energy that would reduce its emissions from business as usual."
It has been a long standing position of developing countries that developed countries, which have eaten up carbon space in the atmosphere, should pay up for the investments needed to solve the problem and vacate the space for developing worlds to eradicate poverty and grow.
In a separate meeting in January 2010 after the contentious Copenhagen Accord, a cable records the then environment minister Jairam Ramesh telling the US ambassador that he did not agree with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's interpretation of the letters written by UN secretary general Ban Ki Moon and Danish PM Rasmussen insisting on legally binding emission commitments from India. Read the full report here.
Source: Nitin Sethi, TNN, New Delhi.
