The Indians Abroad

This is a guest post from Britney Wilkins; she writes at Online College.

As the United States and other developed nations continue to pressure developing nations to conform to their global-emissions protocol, it has in turn become a global debate that serves to affect the economies of these nations. With the United Nations climate conference looming closer in the calendar, countries such as India are getting ready to unleash their negotiation tactics in an effort to protect their nation’s own interests. There is a major difference between developed and developing nations which proves to be a debilitating constraint when attempting to allow them to grow at a rate Western nations grew at the same point in their evolution.
Countries such as India and China have opposed Western requests to decrease various carbon dioxide emissions and maintain that the West never had caps on similar emissions during the Industrial Revolution. Regardless of the time period, such emissions had the same debilitating results but also allowed many nations to reach the status point they are at today. Therefore, India maintains that it needs to release these types of emissions in order to become a fully developed nation. The recent bill passed in the United States by the House of Representatives has served to ruffle some feathers as the bill states that the U.S. will impose sanctions on countries that did not accept the binding emissions cuts. “Sanctioning” is a term that developing nations fear, as it has only served to further hamper the capacity of developing nations to grow and instead nearly sets them backward on the road to development.
With increasing efforts by most of Europe and the United States to prevent further debilitating carbon dioxide emissions from trickling to the air by instilling many eco-friendly programs, it becomes obvious to countries such as India that they are falling behind in terms of technology and the overarching “green” movement that has swept the rest of the world. The global warming and climate changing debate has nearly taken over many international talks abroad as more and more nations have jumped on the bandwagon in order to curb further damage to the environment. However, to countries like India, the green movement can only appear to harm potential development within the nation; they are still in the process of building up the country and ridding the suburbs of the many slums which are found throughout the nation. While they currently do not have the resources to entirely cut down emissions, they have still made “green” buildings such as the ITC Green Center which has been certified by the highest classification according to an American green building council. It has yet to be seen what will happen to international relations in the coming months with the increase of global warming talks, but countries around the world will have to come to some sort of agreement by the end of the year.

This post is contributed by Britney Wilkins, who writes about the online college. She can be directly reached at BritneyWilkins81@yahoo.com

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