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.
<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.
It was June of 1992. The location was Rio de Janeiro. The occasion was the world conference on environment and development. A large number of people had come out on the streets. They were protesting the
<p class="rtejustify"><em>The significance of Rio + 20 does not lie in any document but in the new direction provided to global governance, whose focus should be on patterns of natural resource use, and
<div class="content"> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-intro"> <p class="rtejustify">World leaders attending Rio+20 did nothing to tackle the interlinked crises of economy and ecology,
<p class="rtejustify">The theme of the Rio + 20 Conference was "Green economy in the context of sustainable development and eradication of poverty" and it has not been possible to the find common
<p><strong>The underlying issue is not trade rules but the global climate regime</strong></p> <p class="rtejustify">The concerted opposition to the EU push towards forcing foreign airlines landing in
<p>Two consecutive days of grid collapse has left almost half of India’s population without power.</p> <p>Three major grids – northern, north-eastern and eastern – have crashed. Reportedly,
The new climate regime will lead to commitments only for developing countries, because the United States, which did not ratify the legally binding commitments under the Kyoto Protocol, continues to insist
<p>India launched its National Solar Mission last year. The aim is ambitious – to build capacity of 22,000 mw by 2022. Clearly this is critical: if we can upscale our solar energy generation, we also build the ‘learning’ needed for the world – prices will drop, technology will grow, new answers will be found. But the question is how is this programme working?
Solar mission is too important to let doubtful dealings hijack it. In public perception the renewable energy sector is a do-good sector that promises environment-friendly and affordable energy. It is
Delhi needs to critically rethink its move to abandon roof top solar scheme In many countries it is now possible to feed electricity from solar roof top systems into the grid. What that means is you