Confronting Climate Change
By Navroz K. Dubash
One of the problems that India’s new government will find itself confronting - a problem that is rapidly moving up the global geopolitical agenda - is the issue of climate change. This issue is extremely pertinent to India for a number of reasons. First, climate change is likely to hit India hard [...]
After Bonn, a safe future for youth still in doubt
By Kyle Gracey, Chair for SustainUS and a graduate student in public policy and geophysical sciences at the University of Chicago.
In 2050, I’ll be 77, and given the pace of the climate talks in Bonn these two weeks, I’ll likely spend most of my retirement either under water or on fire.
If finalized [...]
Is India questioning the science?
On the 2nd of June India stood up once again to question the science stated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), one of the top scientific bodies to prove the existence of climate change. And although it sounds ridiculous, if you look deeper into the Indian argument there is some legitimacy. Or so [...]
Setting the scene in Bonn
As we were having our first youth meeting I looked outside to the beautiful sunny, green garden with a fountain. Who else do I see but three of our Indian negotiators. How is this possible? Indian bureaucrats are often quite hard to access or catch – but I guess I’m not in India. I’m writing [...]
Statement by Shyam Saran, Special Envoy of the Prime Minister of India, Bonn Climate Talks
UNFCCC Climate Change Talks, Bonn, April 7, 2009.
Dear Friends, representatives of the Media,
I welcome this opportunity to interact with you and to share with you our perspective on the ongoing multilateral negotiating process leading up to the 15th Conference of Parties in Copenhagen at the end of this [...]