India’s response: point by point and blunt

For once, India’s submission to the climate secretariat (AWG-LCA) was blunt and took on the US head on.

India launched its National Solar Mission last year. The aim is ambitious – to build capacity of 22,000 mw by 2022. Clearly this is critical: if we can upscale our solar energy generation, we also build the ‘learning’ needed for the world – prices will drop, technology will grow, new answers will be found. But the question is how is this programme working?

Three negotiation related documents that I have been sitting on, which need to be put on public record, are:

As I watched President Barack Obama speak on the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico many thoughts crossed my mind.