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'We have 'survival' emissions, you have lifestyle emissions'

10 December 2008

“We have ‘survival’ emissions, you have lifestyle emissions.”

Shyam Saran, India’s envoy to the UN climate conference in Poznan, Poland, on why India won’t accept emissions limits (The Guardian, London, 8 December)

“We longed for a child all these years and now we are very happy to have one in the twilight years of our life.”

Rajo Devi of Hisar in India, who at age 70 has given birth to a girl. Devi conceived 20 years after her menopause with the help of IVF (The Times of India, 7 December)

“We need to move away from passwords. The laissez-faire approach to cyber-security has failed.”…

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