No change

India is a magnificent country - a vibrant, buzzing present with a rich historical heritage.  Yet it is ill-served by people in positions of power.  I blogged recently about corruption in the Indian defence industry.  What is truly staggering is the attitude to climate change and the environment displayed by governments of either hue, both Congress and BJP.  Tony Blair, displaying the cynicism (and exposing the 'greenwashing') of his administration, once said that no country would help the environment at the expense of its economy but the Indian political elite takes this to extremes.
A few years ago, India, along with China, Brazil and South Africa, formed a bloc of four intended to resist pressure from western governments (and threatened island atoll nations) for reductions in emissions.  To the shock and embarrassment of the three other partners, the Indian representative defied the bloc's agreed statement that climate change was happening, his speech actually questioning the science and the facts on the ground (and in the air).  The environment minister in the Congress government confused consumption with generation, saying India would never cut carbon emissions as that would hurt its people's well-being.  Energy production does not need to come from massively expanding the grid of coal-powered fire stations, which will ultimately damage people's well-being directly through their health and indirectly via the vagaries of climate change (increased desertification, stronger typhoons in the Bay of Bengal, melted glaciers).
The BJP environment minister, Prakash Javadekar, virtually repeated his predecessor's assertion word-for-word, saying that India had a 'right to grow' and could not address climate change until it had eradicated poverty.  Of course, this is an open lie because India can address a space programme and maintain nuclear weapons apparently.  Moreover, what is defined as poverty can easily have the goalposts moved and Jesus said "you will always have the poor amongst you'.  It is a fact of life.
It goes further though as India's Intelligence Bureau is targeting Greenpeace and other international institutions, claiming that they are 'spawning' mass movements that would pose a 'significant threat to national economic security'.  In short, as more and more Indians are becoming environmentally aware, they are attacked by their own bureaucracy as little more than traitors. 'Anti-developmental activities' can be nothing to do with economic growth but just being opposed to genetically modified crops.  It is amazing that such stupid people as those who commissioned the report in the first place and those who compiled it can come to run India.  As one of those native Indians targeted, Dr Vandana Shiva called the leaked intelligence report an "attack on civil society."  She's right and I hope civil society triumphs.