Climate Mitigation
2010 top news on the environment in Asia
Date: Dec 2010
Top News is a compilation of important environmental news topics selected by environmental experts from the Asia-Pacific region as well as by international organisations and research institutes from twenty-one countries in the region.
Here comes the sun
By: Mahazareen Dastur
The German experience is a good example for India’s solar energy mission
Deal won, stakes lost
Last fortnight we discussed the clandestine endgame afoot at Cancun to change the framework of the climate change negotiations to suit big and powerful polluters. Since then Cancun has concluded and a deal, in the form of a spate of agreements, has been gavelled into existence by the chair. Commentators and climate activists in the Western world are ecstatic. Even the critics say pragmatism has worked and the world has taken a small step ahead in its battle to fight emissions that determine its growth.
The Last Hurrah, soaked in 'spirit of compromise'
Negotiators have a menu too long on the last day, here how they are poised
By Aditya Ghosh
At Cancun the move is to replace the regime to voluntary targets for all. India’s shift in policy to support this regime will be disastrous for an effective and equitous agreement
The climate endgame in Cancun and how I suspect it will play out in the next 48-hours
By Sunita Narain, CSE, 10 am Cancun time, December 9, 2010
Press Note: How emissions-intensive are our industries?
How emissions-intensive are our industries?
A note on CSE’s latest report, Challenge of the New Balance
No cheap change is possible
Last fortnight I asked: is India rich enough to pay for the cost of transition to a low-carbon economy? I put the question in the context of current moves in climate change negotiations which demand countries such as India—till now seen as victims of the carbon excesses of the already industrialized world—must now take full responsibility to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The US-sponsored and India-supported Copenhagen Accord rejects the principle of historical responsibility towards climate change, radically changing the global framework of action for ever more.
Challenge of the New Balance
This book is based on a study of the six most energy/emissions-intensive sectors of India, with the aim of determining India's low carbon growth options. The sectors covered are power, steel, aluminium, cement, fertilisers and paper and pulp. Together, these six sectors account for an estimated 61.5 per cent of the total greenhouse gas emissions in India (excluding emissions from agriculture and waste)…
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