Washington: US President Barack Obama has said that it is in US interest to offer India the technologies that will allow them to "leapfrog over dirty technologies" and achieve developmental goals in an environmental friendly way.
President Obama's remarks in an interview to the CBS news early this week assumes significance as countries are literally burning the midnight oil in Paris to arrive at an agreement which not only address challenges posed by climate change, but also India's developmental needs.
"It is in our interest to help them (India) develop. Because they're not going to say, okay, we're just going to stay poor -- they're going to want cars and refrigerators and air conditioning, just like we have," Mr Obama said.
"We do that not out of charity; we do it because -- here's one thing you can't do. You can't build a wall to the atmosphere. You can't build a border wall when it comes to carbon emissions or global temperatures or the oceans," Mr Obama said.
For the past few months, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been seeking "climate justice" arguing that India was a victim of global warming and is not responsible for the pollutants and massive development based on fossil fuel.
During the interview, Mr Obama indicated that the US is willing to address India's need of environmental friendly technologies.
"And part of our job coming out of Paris is going to be make sure that we adapt our foreign aid approaches so that we're also helping countries grow while not polluting," he said.
President Obama's remarks in an interview to the CBS news early this week assumes significance as countries are literally burning the midnight oil in Paris to arrive at an agreement which not only address challenges posed by climate change, but also India's developmental needs.
"It is in our interest to help them (India) develop. Because they're not going to say, okay, we're just going to stay poor -- they're going to want cars and refrigerators and air conditioning, just like we have," Mr Obama said.
"We do that not out of charity; we do it because -- here's one thing you can't do. You can't build a wall to the atmosphere. You can't build a border wall when it comes to carbon emissions or global temperatures or the oceans," Mr Obama said.
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For the past few months, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been seeking "climate justice" arguing that India was a victim of global warming and is not responsible for the pollutants and massive development based on fossil fuel.
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During the interview, Mr Obama indicated that the US is willing to address India's need of environmental friendly technologies.
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"And part of our job coming out of Paris is going to be make sure that we adapt our foreign aid approaches so that we're also helping countries grow while not polluting," he said.
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