Sending a tough message to the West on the global warming issue, a senior Indian environment official has asked western countries to become serious about cutting their own emissions before asking India to do it. Pradipto Ghosh, who retired last month as India's environment secretary, has categorically said that India would not curb its greenhouse gas emissions as long as the West continues to treat it as a 'second class global citizen' with less right to pollute than the developed world. The Telegraph quoted Ghosh as saying, that India would not compromise its continued eight per cent economic growth to arrest global warming, arguing that it was historical polluters in the industrialised West who must make the first move.

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