Bangalore is getting hotter than ever. “The city has seen a two-degree increase in temperature in the last 100 years, which is one degree more than the global temperature,” said J Srinivasan, chairman, Divecha Centre for Climate Change & professor of IISc, at the Annual Conference on Environment and Sustainability.

A top climate scientist today asked India to adopt sustainable ways of farming which is under pressure due to water crisis caused by global warming

Agriculture provides much more than food. It is the source of livelihood for majority of Indians. It is an engine of growth for the larger economy. And it is at the forefront of environmental sustainability. New challenges are facing the sector. With each passing year, Indian agriculture has to produce more with less.

Praful Bidwai’s book The Politics of Climate Change and the Global Crisis: Mortgaging Our Future is written at a time of deep diplomatic despondency. It is brutally honest about what is at risk if no action is taken at the national and international level. It exposes the false solution offered by India in its National Action Plan on Climate Change, and its chasing the nuclear mirage as a clean energy option. But most importantly it looks at alternative visions and the role of renewable.

The EU wants countries meeting at a conference in June under the UN’s Rio+20 mechanism to double their share of renewable energy by 2030 under an international obligation. It also wants countries like India to agree to double its energy efficiency levels under an international understanding.

 

Double renewable energy by 2030, EU tells developing nations 

In one of his most emphatic public statements reaffirming the return of ‘equity’ in India’s climate change stance, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said global cooperation on climate change “must be based on the foundation of the right to development and the need for an equitable distribution of burden”. 

France today said India’s stand on climate change will be a significant factor to arrive at an agreement in the future and stressed the need to understand specific conditions of countries involved in the issue. 

Visting India for the first time, Schwarzenegger, also a former governor of California,  now wants to replicate his success in bodybuilding in environment protection.