This report identifies areas of potential collaboration between the EU and India that could reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The EU-India Summit in November 2009 will be a
Rajendra Pachauri heads TERI, The Energy and Resources Institute, based in New Delhi. An engineer of the railways in his early career, Pachauri went to the United States to earn a PhD in industrial engineering and another in economics, after which he returned to India in 1981 to work with TERI.
After outlining the rationale for Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), which revolves primarily around lowering costs of climate change mitigation, and the functioning of the technology, the Roadmap enters into a detailed scenario for the growth of CCS from the few projects that exist today to over three thousand projects by 2050, and concludes with a set of actions that stakeholders can take to achi
The comprehensive road map for phasing out hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) in various sectors as per the reduction targets of Montreal Protocol released by the Ministry of Environment and Forests. India plans to cut the use of the HCFCs by 10 per cent by 2015 and then to zero by 2030.
Our current approach to solving global warming will not work. It is flawed economically, because carbon taxes will cost a fortune and do little, and it is flawed politically, because negotiations to reduce CO2 emissions will become ever more fraught and divisive. And even if you disagree on both counts, the current approach is also flawed technologically.
This document contains reordered and/or consolidated sections of the revised negotiating text (FCCC/AWGLCA/2009/INF.1) prepared by facilitators during and after the informal meeting of the
Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA) held in Bonn, Germany, on 10
An August negotiating session on the United Nations Framework Climate Change Convention in Bonn ignited some interesting, albeit expected, sparks around the subject of intellectual property rights.
This discussion paper presents some early findings from the study
on Emerging Asia contribution on issues of technology for
Copenhagen. It is part of an ongoing research and dialogue
among five key Asian developing countries, namely China, India,
Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand. The objective is to contribute to the forthcoming UNFCCC
Currently, the main challenge is that the long-term, financially viable, widely available and environmentally safe alternative technologies are still under development in many fields. The research and development are fast but deadlines for compliance are also pressing.
