India fails to ratify Paris UN climate agreement
If India had ratified the deal, it would have gone into force well ahead of the original 2020 target and sent a strong signal that developing countries are serious about fighting climate change — arguments the president likely impressed on his Indian counterpart in talks. But the response fell short of expectations.…
‘Paris pact not enough to save the world’
After going through the fine print of the global climate agreement, New Delhi-based think-tank Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) said it was a compromise deal and in many ways it could be termed “lowest minimum denominator”.
Climate Action Network South Asia (CANSA), a coalition of over 141 civil society groups from South Asia, on the other hand, called the agreement “durable and dynamic” but said it had fallen short of being fully fair and responsive to future needs.
CSE noted the developing countries had got “words” and promises of money while developed countries had finally got rid of their historical responsibility of causing climate change. The think-tank said rich nations had no legally binding targets on quantum of finance ($100 billion) or emissions cuts.…
Irony: India accuses Obama of ‘carbon imperialism’
Irony: India accuses Obama of ‘carbon imperialism’
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The next two weeks of the Paris climate conference are going to be fun. The Telegraph (UK) reports:
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Indian villagers protest Greenpeace solar grid: ‘We want real electricity, not fake electricity!’ – ‘Coal Trumps Solar in India’
M.V. Ramana, a physicist at Princeton University who has studied energy access in India, questioned the ethics of foisting an expensive solution on the poor, who’ve historically contributed so little to global warming.
“I strongly encourage [microgrids] for urban, upper classes of people who can afford it,” he said. “But [I would] not do it on the backs of people who are poor and who can’t afford these experiments.”
Christopher Field, director of the Carnegie Institution for Science’s Department of Global Ecology and an active participant in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said that rich nations have a moral responsibility to make renewables more affordable in the developing world.
Until that happens, coal plants will continue being built in India in the near future, Field said in an interview in August.
“Right now, if I were Prime Minister Modi, I’d be saying, ‘Gee, I can deliver coal-based electricity way cheaper than I can deliver renewables,” he said.…
Watch: Morano on Fox on UN Climate Fund & Reparations: ‘UN climate fund will subsidize governments that are best at keeping people poor. That is obscene’
Watch 5 min. Segment here: http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/4520861912001/brazil-india-want-reparations-for-scaling-back-emissions/?playlist_id=933116618001#sp=show-clips
Selected Excerpts:
Morano: ‘The money is going to countries that are best at keeping people in poverty. Because, obscenely, this will attempt to keep countries like Brazil and India from developing to their potential.
So countries, instead of giving vaccines, humanitarian aid, are going to reclassify that aid to meet the climate fund obligations. And a lot of development experts think the poor countries will suffer even more.’
Stuart Varney asks this Climate Fund is a done deal:
Morano: ‘It can be stopped by the next President. Both our entire domestic and international climate policy will depend on the next president’s direction…
This UN climate fund is committing us to essentially helping poor countries stay poor. We are going to subsidize governments that are best at keeping people poor. That is obscene. And we are going to slow down their fossil fuel development. They will not be able to emulate the wealthy Western nations. They are going to have to stay poor in order to fight ‘global warming.’
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‘China is laughing at us. They are building coal plants every several weeks and going to full industrialization.
They love these climate policies in the West because we are tying our own economies back while China can continue unfettered.
There is a movement out now calling for ‘planned recessions’ in order to fight global warming. The UN IPCC wants to redistribute wealth by climate policy’
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Cass Sunstein: Climate ‘Reparations’ for Poor Nations? Not So Fast: As part of any agreement, poor nations, such as Brazil and India, want wealthier countries to pay them a lot of money, both for scaling back their emissions and for adapting to a warming climate…Their argument has traction. Wealthy nations have agreed, in principle, to provide $100 billion by 2020 to the United Nations’ Green Climate Fund. Last year, President Barack Obama pledged to give $3 billion. — and in Paris, poor nations seem poised to demand far more, perhaps even trillions.
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…India Refuses To Be Bound By New Climate Treaty
India Refuse To Be Bound By New Climate Treaty
By Paul Homewood http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/no-legally-binding-climate-change-agreement-under-unfccc-government/articleshow/47163650.cms A slightly opaque report from the Times of India, but it seems to be saying that won’t be bound by any climate agreement this year. NEW DELHI: India not “legally” bound under United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) and it has been “coordinating” with like minded countries for protecting its own interest in the climate change negotiating fora, government today said. “There is no legally binding commitment for India under UNFCCC till date. India has been actively engaged in the multilateral negotiations under the UNFCCC. “The national action plan on climate change (NAPCC) was released in June 2008 to outline India’s strategy to meet the challenge of climate,” Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar informed the Lok Sabha. He said that the new climate change agreement has to be under the UNFCCC and developed countries should take lead in combating climate change as per their mandate under the convention. “All elements of mitigation, adaptation, finance, technology, development and transfer, capacity building and transparency of action and support have to be treated in a balanced and comprehensive manner in the new climate agreement,” Javadekar said. He said that in the context of pre-2020 ambitions, under the ad hoc working on Durban platform for enhanced actions, the developed countries have been urged to ratify the 2nd commitment period of Kyoto Protocol and revisit their targets in 2014. In other words, the developing countries had no legal obligation to reduce emissions under Kyoto, and India want it to stay that way. No great surprise there, but it is significant that they are “coordinating” with like minded countries, so that they don’t get picked off individually.
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Obama wants to clinch climate change deal with India during his visit
Indian Science Conference: 2 of 3 scientists say ‘fears of man-made global warming were greatly exaggerated’
MUMBAI: Two of three scientists at a session on climate change and society at the Indian Science Congress on Tuesday felt fears of man-made global warming were greatly exaggerated. Their presence at the conference was particularly significant in light of the current ‘development-versus-envir- onment’ debates.
“While I agree that glaciers are melting because of global warming, if this is because of man, then what was the reason for the melting of the glaciers in the Gondwana period long ..
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Rajesh Agnihotri senior scientist at the Radio and Atmospheric Science Division, National Physics Laboratory, who mapped changing trends in India’s monsoons, said there was nothing to suggest that this was because of man-made climate change.
Hypothetically, even if man stopped industrial activity, stopped using cars and stopped using air-conditioners, monsoon patterns would still change,” said Agnihotri.
“Natural forces like solar intensity appear to be dominating monsoons to a ..
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