Climate Change

 Complementing Kyoto

Asia Pacific Partnership holds its first meeting

Publication Date: 
14/02/2006
Shams Kazi
Down to Earth
Tags:
Climate Change, Kyoto Protocol, Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)
Energy

Wind power development in India

This book is the first-ever comprehensive attempt to place wind power in Indian context and to deliberate on issues and actions needed to sustain this growth in the future.

Publication Date: 
Dec 2005
G. M. Pillai
World Institute of Sustainable Energy
Tags:
Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Development, Wind Energy, Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), Research, India
Industry

 Working out

Making cement is energy-intensive. Energy accounts for a significant portion of the cost of producing cement. Most technological advancement, unsurprisingly, has been directed towards reducing its consumption. Unlike other industries in India, in which technological levels lag behind the best in the world, the cement industry is state of the art.

Publication Date: 
30/12/2005
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Green House Gases, Kyoto Protocol, Energy Efficiency, Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), Cement Industry, Binani Cement, Gujarat Ambuja, Jaypee Cement, Shree Cement, India
Energy

 Biomass for nothing

Deforestation for free

Publication Date: 
14/11/2005
Down to Earth
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20051115
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Tags:
Crop Residues, Deforestation, Prosopis Juliflora, Climate Change, Biomass, Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), Biomass Gasification, Mysore (D), Shimoga (D), Rajasthan
Biodiversity

 Victory at last

Kyoto Protocol enters into force coming February

Publication Date: 
14/12/2004
Down to Earth
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20041215
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Tags:
Green House Gases, Kyoto Protocol, Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), Brazil
Climate Change

The role of organic agriculture in mitigating climate change - a Scoping Study

There is dramatic evidence that various Greenhouse Gases are responsible for Global Warming and climate change. This present study discusses the potential of Organic Agriculture both to avoid and to sequester Greenhouse Gases (GHG), and makes comparisons with conventional agriculture.

Publication Date: 
01/05/2004
Johannes Kotschi, Karl Mller-Smann
International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements
Tags:
Land Use, Agriculture, Agroforestry, Organic Farming, Carbon Dioxide, Climate Change, Green House Gases, Kyoto Protocol, Climate Mitigation, Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), Joint Implementation, Carbon Sequestration
India

 CDM path cleared

The Union cabinet has given the green light for setting up a designated national authority to clear projects being executed under the Clean Development Mechanism. The body will be headed by the secretary of the Union ministry of environment and forests,

Publication Date: 
14/01/2004
Down to Earth
Tags:
Kyoto Protocol, Renewable Energy, Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), India
India

 Tangible action: now!

The commitment to curb global warming must resurface

Publication Date: 
14/12/2003
Gurmit Singh
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Global Warming, Kyoto Protocol, Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), Developing Countries, European Union (EU)
Climate Change

 At CoP 9

Which issues will come to the fore?

Publication Date: 
14/12/2003
Agus P Sari
Down to Earth
12
20031215
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Tags:
Climate Change, Global Warming, Conference Of Parties, Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)
Climate Change

 Moving climate policy forward

AXEL MICHAELOWA Climate policy is a titanic clash of interests. Emitters of greenhouse gases (GHG), both rich and poor, do not want to bear costs of reducing emissions. Consequently,

Publication Date: 
14/12/2003
Down to Earth
12
20031215
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Tags:
Climate Change, Global Warming, Conference Of Parties, Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)

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