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Indian Minister of Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh attends the Delhi High Level Conference on Climate Change Technology Development and Transfer in New Delhi on October 22, 2009. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh inaugurated the two-day conference with the Maldives president as guest of honour. Getty Images logo Getty Images 1 month ago

Indian Minister of Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh attends the Delhi High Level Conference on Climate Change Technology Development and Transfer in New Delhi on October 22, 2009. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh inaugurated the two-day conference with the Maldives president as guest of honour.

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  1. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, center, checks the time as Indian Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh, right, and Maldives' President Mohamed Nasheed, left, look on at an international conference on technology and climate change in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009. Singh said Thursday that the world's poor nations will not sacrifice their development to achieve a new climate change agreement.
  2. Indian Minister of Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh attends the Delhi High Level Conference on Climate Change Technology Development and Transfer in New Delhi on October 22, 2009. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh inaugurated the two-day conference with the Maldives president as guest of honour.
  3. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, left, and Indian Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh, right, listen as Maldives' President Mohamed Nasheed, unseen, speaks at an international conference on technology and climate change in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009. Singh said the world's poor nations will not sacrifice their development to achieve a new climate change agreement.
  4. U.N. Undersecretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, Sha Zukang, back to camera, talks to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, right, as Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed, left, and Indian Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh, second from left, look on at an international conference on technology and climate change in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009. Singh said the world's poor nations will not sacrifice their development to achieve a new climate change agreement.
  5. Indian Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh listens to an unseen speaker during the Indo - China Joint Workshop on National Actions Plans on Climate Change in New Delhi on October 21,2009. India and China put aside a recent diplomatic spat to sign a five-year agreement Wednesday to cooperate on climate change leading up to crucial talks in Copenhagen.
  6. Indian Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh (L) exchanges a MOA with Chinese Vice Chairman Minister for National Development and Reform Commission Xie Zhenhua (R) during the Indo - China Joint Workshop on National Actions Plans on Climate Change in New Delhi on October 21,2009. India and China put aside a recent diplomatic spat to sign a five-year agreement Wednesday to cooperate on climate change leading up to crucial talks in Copenhagen.
  7. Indian Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh (L) shakes hands with Chinese Vice Chairman Minister for National Development and Reform Commission Xie Zhenhua (R) during the Indo - China Joint Workshop on National Actions Plans on Climate Change in New Delhi on October 21, 2009. India and China put aside a recent diplomatic spat to sign a five-year agreement Wednesday to cooperate on climate change leading up to crucial talks in Copenhagen.
  8. China's chief climate change official, Xie Zhenhua, right, shakes hands with Indian Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh after signing an agreement during a joint workshop on national action plan on climate change in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009.
  9. Indian Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh (C) poses with South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries environment ministers prior to addressing media representatives in New Delhi on October 20,2009, after the conclusion of the Eighth Meeting of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) country Environment ministers.
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  11. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, center, checks the time as Indian Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh, right, and Maldives' President Mohamed Nasheed, left, look on at an international conference on technology and climate change in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009. Singh said Thursday that the world's poor nations will not sacrifice their development to achieve a new climate change agreement.
  12. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, left, and Indian Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh, right, listen as Maldives' President Mohamed Nasheed, unseen, speaks at an international conference on technology and climate change in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009. Singh said the world's poor nations will not sacrifice their development to achieve a new climate change agreement.
  13. U.N. Undersecretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, Sha Zukang, back to camera, talks to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, right, as Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed, left, and Indian Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh, second from left, look on at an international conference on technology and climate change in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009. Singh said the world's poor nations will not sacrifice their development to achieve a new climate change agreement.
  14. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrives for a press conference in Mumbai on October 11, 2009. India hinted that a suicide attack on its embassy in the Afghan capital of Kabul last week was staged by Pakistani militants who oppose its support of President Hamid Karzai's government. Singh, campaigning in Mumbai ahead of local elections, told reporters October 11 that 'Pakistan should realise the great harm that patronisation of terrorist groups has done to South Asia.'
  15. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (C) shakes hands with Cairn Energy chairman Bill Gammell (2nd R) as Chief Minister of the western Indian state of Rajasthan Ashok Gehlot (L) and Cairn India chief executive officer Rahul Dhir (R) looks on during the inauguration of the Mangala oil field in Barmer on August 29, 2009. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on August 29 invited global investors to put their money in India as Britain �s Cairn Energy began pumping crude from a vast oil field in the desert state of Rajasthan. Singh told a ceremony inaugurating the country's largest inland oil field that Cairn's success in developing production showed the world that 'India has a good climate for foreign investment.'
  16. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (C) turns the wheel to open a valve, allowing the first oil to flow from a new oil field, as Cairn Energy chairman Bill Gammell (R), Cairn India chief executive officer Rahul Dhir (2nd R, partially obscured), Chief Minister of the western Indian state of Rajasthan Ashok Gehlot (2nd L) and Indian Petroleum Minister Murali Deora (L) look on during the inauguration of the Mangala oil field in Barmer on August 29, 2009. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on August 29 invited global investors to put their money in India as Britain �s Cairn Energy began pumping crude from a vast oil field in the desert state of Rajasthan. Singh told a ceremony inaugurating the country's largest inland oil field that Cairn's success in developing production showed the world that 'India has a good climate for foreign investment.'
  17. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (L) turns the wheel to open a valve, allowing the first oil to flow from a new oil field, as Cairn Energy chairman Bill Gammell (R) looks on during the inauguration of the Mangala oil field in Barmer on August 29, 2009. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on August 29 invited global investors to put their money in India as Britain �s Cairn Energy began pumping crude from a vast oil field in the desert state of Rajasthan. Singh told a ceremony inaugurating the country's largest inland oil field that Cairn's success in developing production showed the world that 'India has a good climate for foreign investment.'
  18. India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh greets the members of the media at the end of his news conference in Srinagar October 29, 2009. Singh reached out to Kashmiri separatists on Wednesday, offering to resume peace talks to end a decades-old insurgency in the Himalayan region. Singh addressed a news conference on Thursday at the end of his two-day official visit to the troubled Kashmir region.

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  10. Sweden's Environment Minister Andreas Carlgren addresses the media during an EU Environment Ministers meeting at the EU Council in Brussels, Monday Nov. 23, 2009. Carlgren said on Monday the European Union (EU) was "still pushing" developed countries to adopt a broad interim accord at next month's climate conference in Copenhagen.
  11. Oxfam's climate activists wear masks depicting (L-R) French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Spanish Prime Minister Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi and British PM Gordon Brown during a protest outside the European Council building in Brussels November 23, 2009, as EU environment ministers met to find a political deal on fighting climate change ahead of Copenhangen Climate conference. The "0.7%" sign refers to the percentage of gross national income promised by the EU for overseas aid.
  12. Oxfam's climate activists wear masks depicting (L-R) French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Spanish Prime Minister Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi and British PM Gordon Brown during a protest outside the European Council building in Brussels November 23, 2009, as EU environment ministers met to find a political deal on fighting climate change ahead of Copenhangen Climate conference. The "0.7%" sign refers to the percentage of gross national income promised by the EU for overseas aid.
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  14. Oxfam's climate activists wear masks depicting (L-R) French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Spanish Prime Minister Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi and British PM Gordon Brown during a protest outside the European Council building in Brussels November 23, 2009, as EU environment ministers met to find a political deal on fighting climate change ahead of Copenhangen Climate conference.
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  16. Two-year-old Jessica Fletcher kisses a fibreglass penguin representing Beatle John Lennon at the Pier Head in Liverpool, northern England, November 23, 2009. The Beatles penguins are part of a public art exhibition called "Go Penguins" which will see 235 fibreglass penguins decorated by artists, celebrities and community groups go on display around the city as a finale to Liverpool's Year of the Environment programme.
  17. An illegal miner pans for gold at the mountain of Tumpang Pitu in Banyuwangi, East Java November 21, 2009. The miners can collect about 1 to 5 grams of gold and earn up to 175,000 rupiah ($18) a day. The mine has been in operation since June 2009 and local villagers have began protesting because the waste produced by the mine is polluting the environment.
  18. Illegal miners search for gold on the mountain of Tumpang Pitu in Banyuwangi, East Java November 21, 2009. The miners can collect about 1 to 5 grams of gold and earn up to 175,000 rupiah ($18) a day. The mine has been in operation since June 2009 and local villagers have began protesting because the waste produced by the mine is polluting the environment.

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