Word: kalpavriksh
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Dates: during 1992-1992
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India, which in the early 1970s invested heavily in the purchase of Western refrigeration technology, today not only manufactures its own refrigerators but exports CFC compressors. Says Ashish Kothari of Kalpavriksh, India's best- known environmental group: "Our development strategies cannot be sacrificed for the destruction of the environment caused by the West." And then there is the cost of changing technologies. "India recognizes the threat to the environment and the necessity for a global burden sharing to control it," says Maneka Gandhi, former Minister of the Environment, who represented India at the Montreal Protocol negotiations. "But is it fair...
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