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Climate change
Desperate for gas
@ljishnu Issue Date: Nov 15, 2011
BAWANA IN NORTHWEST DELHI is a telling stop on India’s winding and elusive gas trail. About 35 km from the city centre, Bawana is where the Delhi government is setting up a 1,500 MW power plant that will meet a fifth of the capital’s voracious energy needs. The state-owned generating company, Pragati Power Corporation Ltd (PPCL), is forking out Rs 4,500-crore to set up this gas-fired plant in two modules of 750 MW each, the first of which has been ready for a while. However, despite severe power cuts in recent weeks, the plant has remained idle. There is no fuel to run it
Future shock
Issue Date: Nov 30, 2011
It is a definite recipe for disaster, barely short of apocalypse. Thousands may die, millions get affected, and assets worth billions of dollars get destroyed. As human-induced greenhouse gases increase, so will extreme weather events like floods, heat waves and droughts.
Durban diary: a visual journal
Empty meeting halls while the world awaits the decision of the final negotiationsof the COP17 at Durban Photograph by:Surya Sen Read also: Time-outDurban diary: a visual journal
Climate change action protest at COP17 Durban Photograph by: Arnab Pratim Dutta Read also: Time-outDurban diary: a visual journal
Climate change action protest at COP17 Durban Photograph by: Arnab Pratim Dutta Read also: Time-outDurban diary: a visual journal
Climate change action protest at COP17 Durban Photograph by: Arnab Pratim Dutta Read also: Time-outDurban diary: a visual journal
Chandra Bhushan, CSE speaks at the CSE side event at COP17 Durban Photograph by: Arnab Pratim Dutta Read also: Time-outDurban diary: a visual journal
A Brazilian negotiator checks his phone at the last minute before the begining of the high level negotiations of the COP17 Durban Photograph by: Arnab Pratim Dutta Read also: Time-outCanada pulls out of Kyoto Protocol
Issue Date: Dec 14, 2011
Just a day after the Durban climate meet, Canada announced its decision to pull out of the Kyoto Protocol. “The Kyoto Protocol does not represent the path forward for Canada. It does not include two of the world’s largest emitters—the US and China—and therefore it cannot work,” said Peter Kent, Canada’s environment minister, in a media briefing in Toronto. Referring to Kyoto Protocol as an “impediment”, he said that the Durban Platform was the “way forward”.
Letters - December 31, 2011
Issue Date: Dec 31, 2011
Cautious Warning
It appears that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has tightened its procedures in the hope of preventing errors in terms of the language used in its report (‘Future shock’, November 16-30, 2011).
