Blame bankers not oil for climate impasse
<p> </p> <p><em>It's time the green brigade joins the banker-bashing, Occupy Wall Street movement</em></p> <p>Another climate summit and another potential disappointment facing the green brigade.
Climate Change
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Another co2alition of the willing?
<p>It was the biannual gathering of over 100,000 Protestants in Bremen, a small town in Germany. As the articulate minister for environment, Sigmar Gabriel, came to participate in a discussion on energy security for a climate-secure world, many stood up. Soon the hall was full of blue placards, held high, all saying: “No to coal.” The minister, I could see, was riled.
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The mean world of climate change
<p>The Prime Minister has released India’s national action plan on climate change. For those engaged in the business of environment and climate, the plan may offer nothing new or radical. But, as I see it, the plan asserts India can grow differently, because “it is in an early stage of development”.
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A political agreement at Copenhagen will be a joke on the world
<p>For two years the world has negotiated for an equitable, ambitious and legally binding climate agreement on basis of the Bali Action Plan. And now we are being told that a legally binding agreement is not possible and that we should be happy with a political agreement/ statement at Copenhagen.
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My Copenhagen diary: How polluters won and we all lost
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><b>Monday, December 14, 2009</b>: Standing in line in the freezing cold, waiting to be registered to the conference of parties to the climate change convention being held in Copenhagen, I have strange sense of foreboding that this will be an eventful but disappointing week.
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Move over boys and girls, the men are here: the future of climate negotiations and why India wants the Accord
<p>Somebody recently asked me why India supported the Copenhagen Accord. It is correct to say that the proposed accord has no meaningful targets for emission reduction from Annex 1 (industrialized countries). Global emissions will increase or reduce at best marginally. So it will be bad for the world’s efforts to combat climate change. We are victims of climate change.
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Copenhagen Accord: US, China submissions and more
<p><strong>Copenhagen Accord: country submissions </strong><br /> <br /> By now, Australia, US, China and EU have all sent their letters to UNFCCC secretariat regarding their ‘willingness to support’ the Copenhagen Accord or not. It is interestingly to break down the communication and to read between the lines. <br /> <br />
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Glaciating the climate debate
<p>The recent controversy on the IPCC report regarding Himalayan glaciers has been all over the media.
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Copenhagen Accord letters continued: India
<p><b>India (letter dated January 30, 2010, National Focal Point to Yvo de Boer)</b> Late Saturday night (<a href="http://moef.nic.in/index.php">around 9.30 pm reportedly from the media release</a>), the Indian government sent a letter to the UNFCCC secretariat in Bonn.<br /> <br />
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Low carbon or new development model?
<p>The last two years have seen a flurry of reports that have projected the long-term greenhouse gas emissions trajectory of India, and how the country can go low-carbon and help solve the climate change crisis.
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Nepal's right to energy movement: lessons for super-grids of the future
<p>Sorry for the long silence in the blog space. But I was fatigued and rather frustrated with the same old arguments and going-nowhere debates. So in the last few months we have been busy with new research to bring different perspectives to the old problems -- how will we share the increasingly scarce budget in an increasingly at-risk carbon constrained world.</p>