A conversation with: Indias chief climate change negotiator Ravi Shankar Prasad

November 19, 2013 12:55

The annual United Nations climate change conference, which runs from Nov. 11 to 22, started with an emotional appeal from the Philippine negotiator Yeb Sano, who declared that he would be fasting "until a meaningful outcome is in sight' in the wake of the "staggering" devastation from Typhoon Haiyan in his country.

Ravi Shankar Prasad, India's chief negotiator, on the old and new stumbling blocks as delegations from 189 countries attempt to draft a new climate change treaty by 2015 in the National Stadium in Warsaw. Read

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