India's carbon emissions in the next eight years will far exceed the target the world wants to set for it by 2050
In July, an old scientific thought that was popular in the 1980s made a whole new comeback. Green scientists had then predicted that if the earth was to survive the ecological pressures of development, the rise in global temperature in 2050 must be capped at just 2 degrees above the 1900 level of 13.74 degrees Celsius.
(This story appears in the 11 September, 2009 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)