Climate change: US wants China, India on board

The world can pursue an ambitious agreement that can meet both climate and development challenges of countries like India, the US has said as it underlined the need for getting India and China on board to make the UN climate summit a success. “We can pursue an ambitious climate agreement even while India pursues an ambitious development policy. And, in fact, we can pursue the types of solutions that can meet both climate and development challenges,” US Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes said He was speaking to reporters after US President Barack Obama held bilateral meetings with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping here on Monday “I think very clearly in both meetings, President Obama made the point that he’s made throughout his presidency that addressing the challenge of climate change and pursuing sustainable economic development that lifts people out of poverty around the world are not competitive goals.