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Climate Change

 Breach of protocol

12-day climate meet only assured another meeting AT THE end of 12 days of negotiation, the chairperson of the working group on Kyoto Protocol locked up all negotiators for two hours at night. His purpose: to pressure them into reaching a consensus. The rich nations agreed to a concession: to discuss targets for emission reduction in June 2009. Delaying tactics The meeting

Publication Date: 
29/04/2009
Kushal Pal Singh Yadav
Down to Earth
Tags:
UNFCCC, Climate Change, IPCC, Kyoto Protocol, Emission Targets, Technology Transfer, China, Japan, Germany, United States Of America (US), Developing Countries
Energy

Time to plug in

The International Conference for Renewable Energies is to be held in Bonn, Germany. But here is a sector dwarfed by fossil fuels, and although governments can proactively root for renewables, and some have, the options given to developing countries are quite limiting. After travelling in Germany and the UK, the future of renewable energies, says KUSHAL P S YADAV, is truly in the balance.

Publication Date: 
15/06/2004
Kushal Pal Singh Yadav
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Solar Energy, Renewable Energy, Germany, United Kingdom (UK), Subsidies, Energy Policy

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