Low carbon growth options for India by Chandra Bhushan presented at the South Asian Media Briefing on Climate Change, CSE, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, 24 – 25 November, 2010.
New Delhi: The UK-India Business Leaders Climate Group has called fora closer bilateral trade ties on clean technologies to pursue a private sector led pro-business, pro-green growth and pro-innovation approach to low-carbon growth.
Releasing a report in London on Monday, the group emphasised the business case for tapping opportunities in clean energy, energy efficiency, low carbon technology,
Read text of US President Obama's address to the Indian Parliament. He said that US-India can pursue joint R&D to create green jobs, give Indians access to cleaner, affordable energy and meet commitments made at Copenhagen.
This document outlines the benefits of green growth and the importance of developing the right policies to support a transition towards the low carbon economy. It assesses the financing needs of green growth in developing countries and illustrates why climate finance needs to be framed in the wider context of growth and development finance.
This latest assessment by UNEP spotlights worst case and best case scenarios up to 2020 while estimating the emissions gaps likely under various outcomes that will need to be bridged in order to avoid 'dangerous' climate change.
Over the past decade, Asia and the Pacific has made significant progress in achieving the Millennium Development Goals. However, accelerating climate change is threatening to reverse these gains, and those who are already economically and socially vulnerable are likely to suffer soonest and most.
The report, which is the product of qualitative research carried out in eight countries, assesses the extent of the finance gap for clean energy in developing countries and the barriers to scaling up private sector investment in low-carbon energy solutions.
