With the considerable discussions on COP15 arising out of the meetings at Bangkok, Bonn, Barcelona and elsewhere and a global community engaging in the debates and following it through the net, I am left wondering what exactly is it that we will be discussing at Copenhagen? Especially what will India be speaking and expecting? Will… [Read more…]
November 7, 2009
I have been reading intensely (not as much quantitatively as much as I would have wanted to) on the climate change negotiations leading to Copenhagen and various other related topics like technology and the legislation’s being proposed. I would maybe not express myself as I find below, had I found some credible amount of diversity… [Read more…]
October 20, 2009
Even as we debate rages on the climate change talks and fresh brouhaha over Jairam Ramesh’s statements, it is important to be aware of what other countries are doing. I happened to go through (glance over the contents list more like it) the American Clean Energy and Security Act, 2009, a whooping 1428 page document… [Read more…]
October 13, 2009
I went through a multiple set of emotions and thoughts after watching Age of the Stupid. And one of those was the almost complete unlikeliness of the situation being as grave and desolate in 2055 as shown in the movie. Humanity has been a more than superb adapter over the years. The do gooders may… [Read more…]
August 6, 2009
Articles from EPW – Aug1, 2009 – www.epw.org.in Climate Change: India’s Options India and Climate Change: Some International Dimensions Climate Change: Challenges Facing India’s Poor Keeping India’s Economic Engine Going: Climate Change and the Urbanisation Question India and a Carbon Deal Climate Change and the Energy Challenge: A Pragmatic Approach for India
March 30, 2009
Read with interest two posts in TOI today. Demolition of flyover gets under way on April 3 NCP leader dumps garbage at Thane civic headquarters One matter relating presumably only to traffic but having a significant waste aspect to itself and the other a waste matter at heart. In the case of the Thane matter… [Read more…]
February 23, 2009
Response to Down to Earth editorial http://www.downtoearth.org.in/editor.asp?foldername=20090228&filename=Editor&sec_id=2&sid=1 Dear Sunita, Another nice but particularly stirring editorial, which moves one to respond. I am sure you agree but as the heading for this post goes, I think India really has a very bad position on climate change. I have been of the opinion for a good many… [Read more…]
November 8, 2009
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