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Change to avoid climate change

By : sustainabilityo..., Dec 24, 2009

Karnataka is the second most vulnerable state in India, after Rajasthan to climate change. 

This was because of the aridity of the North Karnataka regions, which made the state, the second driest place in the country, Prof N H Ravindranath, Department of Sustainable...

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Subject Tags: Technology

India approves new policy to promote biofuels

By : sustainabilityo..., Dec 24, 2009

In a bid to promote cost-effective clean energy sources, India Thursday approved a new policy that calls for blending at least 20 percent biofuels in diesel and petrol by 2017, apart from extending incentives to encourage its production in wastelands.

“The policy...

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Subject Tags: Biofuels , Technology

India to draw road map for low-carbon growth

By : sustainabilityo..., Dec 23, 2009

Getting down to implement a comprehensive domestic agenda of adaptation and mitigation and seeking to reduce the emission intensity of gross domestic product by 20-25 per cent by 2020, Environment and Forests Minister Jairam Ramesh on Tuesday asked the Planning Commission to...

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Copenhagen climate summit fails green investors

By : sustainabilityo..., Dec 22, 2009

When most of the exhausted delegates at Copenhagen's Bella Centre finally witnessed a deal, it predictably called for huge investment in clean energy technologies to stop climate change.

But the text didn't specify exactly how that money would be raised - and some at...

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Subject Tags: energy , Technology

Govt says to rein in carbon intensity

By : sustainabilityo..., Dec 22, 2009

The government could improve upon its aims to slow the growth of greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, the environment minister said on Tuesday after returning from climate change talks in Copenhagen.

India said it was willing to rein in its "carbon intensity" -- the...

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Subject Tags: Technology

Europe feels left out in cold on climate deal

By : sustainabilityo..., Dec 22, 2009

It's a climate deal that has Europe feeling left out in the cold.The continent that used to take the lead in advocating climate action is now taking the lead in climate complaining. And it's not just upset with the results, but the process itself.

Europe's goals were...

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India, Bhutan to sign four MoUs for hydel power projects

By : sustainabilityo..., Dec 22, 2009

Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck arrived here on his first state visit to a country after his formal coronation as the fifth King of Bhutan last year.

India and Bhutan intend cementing their ties further by signing a dozen pacts including four memoranda of understanding...

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Subject Tags: Bhutan , Technology

Despite Failed Climate Talks, More Green Awareness

By : sustainabilityo..., Dec 21, 2009

The world supped on an alphabet soup of acronyms over the nearly two weeks of climate change talks that just ended – UNFCCC, COP-15, IPCC, CDM, LDCF, MEF, CCS. But did any of these filter down to reach the average citizen?

Does it bother people if their countries’ "...

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New York challenge for City carbon market crown

By : sustainabilityo..., Dec 21, 2009

London’s position as the dominant world financial centre for the £75 billion carbon market could be lost to New York after the adoption of the US-brokered Copenhagen Accord at UN climate talks last week.

Despite criticism that an agreement struck by the US, China,...

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What Copenhagen agreement really means to India

By : sustainabilityo..., Dec 21, 2009

Though media reports point to an acrimonious and anarchic Copenhagen Summit, in hindsight it appears that there has been a method in the madness.

Just run through the ensuing version of Copenhagen Climate Play. Act 1: Copenhagen witnesses the expected. G77, India and...

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