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.

The European Union EU.L is willing to consider whether India’s efforts to reduce carbon emissions could qualify for waivers under an EU law that charges airlines for polluting, the 27-nation bloc’s climate chief said on Friday.

India, Russia, the United States, China and other countries would meet in Moscow later this month to decide on whether to take retaliatory measures against the European Union (EU) on its “unilateral” decision to impose carbon tax on air travel.

 

“Oceans and climate are linked to each other. Far from the static, Atlantic Ocean contributes a lot to climate change,” shared Prof A D Singh, department of geology, Banaras Hindu University (BHU). He has returned recently from an ocean expedition to Atlantic Ocean.

 

The Wall Street Journal has received a dressing down from a large group of leading scientists for promoting retrograde and out-of-date views on climate change.

 

 

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Thursday expressed concern over the lack of collective global will to seriously address climate change and said India would play a constructive role in climate talks as long as it was based on an equitable response.

 

India wants equitable response at climate talks: PM