Himachal Pradesh will have a centre to study climatic changes and their impact on environment, an official statement said here Saturday. Environmentalist R.K. Pachauri, director general of The Energy and Resources Institute, will inaugurate the centre here in February, the statement quoting Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal said.
Suzlon launches fastest growing environmental campaign for clean air – 30 December 2011, The Economic Times
Wind power company Suzlon launched a campaign in Mumbai titled Pure Air Lovers’ Society, (P.A.L.S.) spanning over one million registered members and recording 9,000 registrations per day. This movement spans 86 cities including New Delhi and Bangalore. The movement places emphasis on the importance of clean air.
P.A.L.S. first initiative, GaadiBandh, was launched in Pune to educate people about the importance of turning off vehicles at signals to help reduce pollution emissions. As a part of this initiative, P.A.L.S. volunteers were stationed at traffic signals to seek support from commuters and increase their awareness on reducing pollution from idling vehicles.
China’s forestry output up 24% – 30 December 2011, The Economic Times
The Chinese forestry industry output rose by 24.1% year-on-year to 2.83 trillion yuan (about $448 billion), the government announced on Thursday. China produced 165 million cubic meters of wood-based panels and 490 million sq meters of wood and bamboo flooring this year, up 7.7% and 2.2% year-on-year, respectively, the State Forestry Administration (SFA) said.
Hit by short supply, coal fails to dazzle sector – 30 December 2011, Hindustan Times
For the coal sector, the year 2011 started with a bang amid rosy announcements to augment ‘black diamond’ production by removing all bottlenecks, but it ended with a whimper. Against a widening 142 MT demand-supply gap and a huge over 12,000 MW power capacity addition plans, warring ministries, specially Coal and MoEF, remaining at loggerheads throughout the year over contentious issue of “go” and “no go” mining zones gave much fodder to media.
Climate Change Endangers Millions In South Asia – 29 December 2011, Eurasia Review
Millions of people in South Asia are vulnerable to climate change because of depleting glaciers, increasing coastal erosion, frequent floods and other natural disasters associated with global warming, warn environmentalists and development agencies.
Inclement in Durban – 28 December 2011, Hindustan Times
Had the world’s leaders decided to ensure that global warming would increase to 3 to 4 degrees Celsius, perhaps to 5 degrees Celsius, instead of the 1.5-to-20 degrees Celsius threshold (over preindustrial temperatures) that scientists believe earth can tolerate, they couldn’t have acted more purposively than they did at the Durban climate conference. If this sounds like a harsh judgement that radically differs from the official spin that Durban was a historic success, a victory for climate equity, and an Indian triumph, consider the following.
Read more on what leading environmentalist Praful Desai has to say about Inclement at Durban
The Durban spin – 28 December 2011, Deccan Herald
The United States, with 4 per cent of the earth’s population, emits 25 per cent of the total global greenhouse gases.
In the recently-concluded 14-day intense climate negotiations in the South African port city of Durban, one can discover a sense of win-win smugness. Apart from the minor irritants like Canada walking out of the Kyoto Protocol, the major emitters were spared the expediency of urgent action and managed to reach to a state of consensual status-quo. An Australian senator has derided the UN summit in Durban as a victory for political spin trying to “disguise what is a case of climate failure.” Another predicted that it will be a “do-nothing decade for global action.”
India not to sign legally binding pacts on emission cuts: Govt – 27 December 2011, The Economic Times
India will not sign any legally binding global agreement for emissions reduction, as the country needs to eradicate poverty through economic growth, Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan said today.
“There is no question of signing a legally binding agreement at this point of our development. We need to make sure that our development does not suffer,” Natarajan said in Rajya Sabha.
India not to sign any legally binding pacts on emission cuts: Govt
‘Climate change poses serious threat to food security’ – 26 December 2011, The Hindu
Climate change poses the most serious threat to agriculture world over and to the food security, with countries like India facing the most unfavourable crop prospects, according to Chief Operating Officer of NutriPlus Knowledge Programme of ICRISAT Saikatdatta Mazumdar.
Jayanthi Natarajan hauls up Mayawati for apathy towards rivers’ clean-up in UP – 23 December 2011, Times of India
The UPA government launched another salvo at BSP supremo Mayawati with the Union environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan writing to the Uttar Pradesh CM pointing out that industries were polluting select rivers in the state leading to contamination of groundwater in some regions.
Jayanthi Natarajan hauls up Mayawati for apathy towards rivers’ clean-up in UP
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