Presentation by Sunita Narain Director General of Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) at the Anil Agarwal Dialogue 2015: Poor in climate change, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, March 11 – 12, 2015.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in Budget 2015 delivered a first. India has accepted that it has a de facto carbon tax — on petroleum products and on dirty coal.
Padmabhooshan Shri. Anil Agarwal, the founder of Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi and Editor of Down to Earth, who died on January 2, 2002, was a visionary leader who fought till his death for protecting India's environment. Science India offers tribute to Anilji, a tireless crusader for the environment.
We must also realise that even as environmental problems have grown, the institutions for the oversight and management of natural resources have shrunk
I write this with considerable impatience and one question. Do we really have the time to waste on controversies like what ancient India did or did not achieve by way of scientific discoveries?
In my previous article I wrote that India should demand an ambitious climate-change deal, because we need the world to stay safe-below the guardrail of two degrees Celsius rise in temperature.
