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India rebuffs Clinton call on low-carbon future

By James Lamont in New Delhi, James Fontanella-Khan in,Mumbai and Daniel Dombey in Washington

Published: July 20 2009 03:00 | Last updated: July 20 2009 03:00

India last night rebuffed an appeal by Hillary Clinton, US secretary of state, to embrace a low-carbon future in which the two countries would join to devise new ways of consuming and producing energy.

Mrs Clinton, on a five-day visit to the country, said low-carbon emissions would not jeopardise India's high economic growth rates and its goal of lifting millions of people out of poverty. She offered a technological partnership to secure the fast- growing nation's energy supplies and help boost the livelihoods of its farmers.

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