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India turns a more cautious green

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, expected to win a third-term when India holds its national elections this spring, is among the emerging economies’ most fervent believers in climate change. He sees this an “existential” threat for…

Do the right thing

“Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing”, Winston Churchill supposedly once remarked. “After they’ve tried all the other alternatives.” Whether Churchill ever in fact said this (the evidence is “no”), it is even more…