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India and Copenhagen Summit Dr Arvind Kumar The countdown for hammering out a new U.N. climate treaty at the forthcoming Copenhagen summit scheduled for December 2009 has already begun. A flurry of hectic diplomatic activity has already been set in motion wherein the developed world and the emerging economies are trying to bridge their differences on how to curb greenhouse-gas emissions that cause global warming. The United States expects developing countries like India and China to agree to specific reduction targets on the emissions produced by their burgeoning economies. While arguing that this would hurt its economic growth, India wants the industrialized world to curb its pollution as well as fund new technologies in the developing world. Enormity of the Issues Climate change is one of the most complex challenges of the 21st century. As has been observed: “No country is immune and no country alone can take on the interconnected challenges posed by climate change, inclu