While the build-up to this year’s important climate conference in Copenhagen (where the international community is to hammer out a successor to the Kyoto Protocol) has been going on for years, the diplomatic grandstanding is now starting to reach new peaks (or rather lows if the international community is to have any success in setting binding targets for emission reduction). For instance, under a recent visit to India, US Foreign Secretary Clinton was told in firm manners that India will not commit to binding reduction targets. Meanwhile, Clinton hastily added the US is not seeking to hinder the economic development of…