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When Hydroelectric Meets Climate Change: Lessons For Renewable Diversity

Posted on 20. May, 2010 by Ross.

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Reliance on hydroelectric power can lead to drought, famine and turmoil when not combined with other power sources and when future climate projections are ignored.
Around the world, governments which rarely agree on anything all agree with one thing: that climate change is a real danger to civilisation. Developed and developing nations are pursuing greater levels [...]

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UK and India Proves That Not All Of Copenhagen Was All Talk And No Action

Posted on 18. Feb, 2010 by Ross.

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Copenhagen was full of hot air, right? Commitments by developed and developing nations fell short of the mark then and have since been further scaled back, correct? There’s no hope for further progress on the international response to climate change, is there?
Some countries have other ideas.
The Copenhagen agreement was a complicated beast, and although most [...]

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Copenhagen Conundrum 4: Aviation And International Shipping

Posted on 15. Dec, 2009 by Ross.

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One part of the Copenhagen conference trying to quietly slip under the radar is the inclusion on shipping and aviation emissions into national carbon reduction targets.
Few people remain ignorant of the environmental cost of flying: worldwide aviation emissions have risen by 50% since 1990 on the back of cut-price aeroplane operators and rising affluence. (Having [...]

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India Makes Strides In Renewables And Energy Efficiency; Ominous Accord With USA

Posted on 26. Nov, 2009 by Ross.

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India is still the Jekyll and Hyde of climate change this week: despite positive announcements over solar power targets and steps to help transfer low-carbon technologies to developing countries, their growing agreement with climate change sloth the USA could spell trouble at the Copenhagen negotiating table in December.
After months of rumours and draft report leaks, [...]

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India: Climate Change’s Jekyll & Hyde

Posted on 10. Nov, 2009 by Ross.

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As Copenhagen approaches, countries are slowly but surely aligning their political commitments to carbon reduction in order to come to an effective and agreeable international agreement to avoid catastrophic climate change.
India, however, seems to still be reading a different script.
The signals emanating from India are constantly confusing and contradictory: just when India looks unmoveable on climate [...]

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Copenhagen: There Is No Plan B

Posted on 19. Oct, 2009 by Ross.

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At a time when the US is stalling for more time in order to bring it’s own (rather unambitious) climate change cap-and-trade legislation to the negotiating table, UK prime minister Gordon Brown has delivered the European view.
The Copenhagen climate change talks are still the last chance: we have 50 days to set the course of [...]

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Cap and Trade Comes To India Ahead Of USA

Posted on 27. Aug, 2009 by Ross.

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In a bold move designed to stir up the landscape of international climate change diplomacy, the Indian government has set the foundations for an imminent carbon cap-and-trade scheme to reduce domestic energy consumption by 5% by 2015.
Despite still refusing to set a stringent target for carbon dioxide emissions ahead of the Copenhagen Conference in December, [...]

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India Unmoveable On Climate Change Commitments

Posted on 20. Jul, 2009 by Ross.

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Despite growing international pressure to commit to legally binding carbon emission targets at December’s Copenhagen climate change conference, India is continuing to robustly ignore criticism in its continuing surge towards economic development.
The presence of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton did little to dissuade Indian Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh from declaring that India would never [...]

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India To Suffer From 20,000 MW Energy Shortage As Monsoon Fails Due To El Nino

Posted on 15. Jul, 2009 by Ross.

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With the monsoon season less of a deluge and more of a drip, India is about to suffer under a gigantic energy shortfall which threatens to only get worse unless the rains come back in force.
The country is currently facing an energy shortage of 15,000 to 20,000 megawatts (MW) in electricity generation, Indian Power Minister [...]

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Kyoto 2.0 Set To Fall At The First Hurdle

Posted on 14. Apr, 2009 by Ross.

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With eight months to go before representatives from 170 countries attempt to agree on a follow-up to the Kyoto Climate Protocol at the Copenhagen Climate Convention, the early indications are that insurmountable differences between key players will prevent any dramatic new action to curb global carbon dioxide emissions.
Whilst much has already been made of the [...]