Tom Francis - SWSports wrote:
http://beta.thehindu.com/news/nation...?homepage=true

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It's amazing, the impact that Massachusetts election has made.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has written to UN Secretary General Ban
Ki-moon seeking a number of clarifications on the implications of the
accord that India -- with five other countries -- had negotiated in the
last moments of the Copenhagen climate summit in December, the officials
said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

“That letter, and the defeat of the Democrats in the Massachusetts
bypoll, has forced the UN to postpone the deadline indefinitely,” an
official said. “With the Democrats losing in one of their strongholds,
the chances of the climate bill going through the US senate have receded
dramatically.

“So if the US is not going to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 17
percent, which was a very weak target anyway, why should we make any
commitment even if it does not have any legal teeth?” the official said.