Energy Tours at COP15 and Denmark’s commitment to a cleaner future
11 am, December 11th : We leave from Bella Center for a tour of the offshore windfarms near Copenhagen. This is the first day I am seeing Copenhagen in realy daylight. From the bus to onboard the ship, we are in the middle of the sea within 20 minutes. As I get the first glance [...]
What is Development?
The poorer billions on Earth contribute negligible amounts of pollution, admittedly because they do not have the means. The enormous bulk of the emissions are caused by the ‘developed’ section (a very small section) of society worldwide. And we are now saying that we must not stop those poorer billions from increasing their contribution to the problem?!
New Report on India’s per capita GHG Emissions
Published in parallel on the Agents of Change 2009 Blog
There has been much hype that India will overtake the developed countries to become one of most polluting countries in coming year. But the recently released report titled, “India’s GHG emissions profile: results of five climate modelling studies” said something expected and contrary to the [...]
Hyderabad Youth Charter on Climate
This youth charter on Climate/ Climate Change is the outcome of the first Hyderabad Youth Summit on Climate Change held in the Deloitte Campus in Gachibowli, Hyderbad on June 20, 21st ’09. The summit was organized by the Indian Youth Climate Network (IYCN) with the support of WWF-India, Deloitte and APEC.
Since the charter is quite [...]
Hyderabad Youth Contemplate Development in the Context of Climate Change
Cross-posted from thoughtPosition
The 2-day Hyderabad Summit on Climate Change (HySocc’09) on 20th & 21st June by IYCN was a unique affair: one that created impact, invoked inspiration and involved diverse actors from the society: students, IT professionals, Green analysts, activists and most importantly individuals and organizations which ‘did something about it’. It involved in-depth analysis [...]
Discussion on Energy Issue
I would like to start with the note that my knowledge on energy issues is very limited but there are certain things that I would like to discuss with the members of this group.
Firstly on WWF’s Earth Hour, I have visited the NTPS in Badarpur, Delhi where Mr. Aggarwal told us that these power stations [...]
Himalayas hydroelectric dam project stopped after scientist on hunger strike against the project almost dies
Eminent Indian professor calls off fast after government agrees to speed up inquiry into river flow in sacred Ganges
John Vidal, environment editor
guardian.co.uk, Friday 13 March 2009 13.29 GMT
Pilgrim returns to Gagotri from source of Ganges, along Bhagirathi Valley, India. Photograph: David Beatty/Rex Features
Work [...]
TERI: Low Carbon Pathways for India
Recently at the fourteenth session of the conference of parties to the Unites Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change held at Poznan’ to discuss the future global strategies on CDM, came across a saviour for India’s reputation at the conference after cancellation of the Government of India (GoI) side event. The discussion involved a presentation [...]
Ultra Mega Power Project at Mundra
The time has come to worship the black rocks beneath our soil. India needs approximately 160,000 megawatts of electricity in the coming decade to be able to sustain its phenomenal growth rate. Conveniently enough, we have one of the largest coal reserves in the world. Unfortunately Indian coal is not of good quality as it [...]
Climate Change Mitigation – an equitable solution?
A few weeks back, I was at attending a symposium on climate change, sustainability and equity in Hyderabad, organized by reputed institutions, and attended by prominent figures in academia and civil society. The symposium was informative and lively, consisting of numerous presentations on subjects ranging from climate change and gender to the future of ‘the [...]
Youth Protest Indo-US Nuclear Deal
“We’re on our 8th day of fasting,” said one of the students from Calicut University, Calicut, Kerela. “We don’t want nuclear to be a part of our future.” Several students including Abdul Rehman, Saji Mathew, Ramziya Rehmat, Tomy Jecob, Krupa and Divya, inspired by one of their professors came all the way from the southern [...]
