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Headline	Author	Published	Section
You Give Climate Change a Bad Name Jon Bon Jovi will play Live Earth concert in Mumbai		18 Sep 2008	News
Posted at 3:54 PM on 18 Sep 2008 After seven concerts on seven continents on 7/7/07, Live Earth has downsized (you may have noticed that 8/8/08 passed by with nary a warble). On Thursday, organizers Al Gore and Kevin Wall announced plans for a Dec. 7 Live Earth concert in Mumbai, India. The show will feature "some of the biggest artists from India to the U.S. and beyond," says Wall. Jon Bon Jovi and ...
Topics: Al Gore, celebrity, climate, green living, India, music, news (all these topics)

Is the World Bank coal-fused? Coal still has no place in clean development	Joseph Romm	08 Apr 2008	Gristmill
You knew it had to happen: the World Bank now has the same climate sensibility as ... the Kansas House. Scientist Jim Hansen, on the other hand, has requested a meeting with Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers, arguing for a moratorium on coal plants until carbon capture and storage technology is available. Even Wall Street looks on coal skeptically. Last Friday, the Kansas House failed to override Sebelius' veto of two new plants by only one vote. And the World Bank is con ...
Topics: climate, coal, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, India, insanity, politics, World Bank (all these topics)

Sari, No Can Do Energy efficiency a tough sell to small businesses in India		27 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 4:07 PM on 27 Dec 2007 India's 4.5 million small or medium businesses produce 70 percent of the country's industrial pollution, according to a World Bank study. But most of those small-scale entrepreneurs can't afford the upfront cost of energy-efficient equipment -- or aren't persuaded of its usefulness -- creating a barrier to India's attempts to curb emissions from its fast-growing economy. Many areas of th ...
Topics: business, climate, energy, energy efficiency, India, news (all these topics)

Elephants in the room Greenpeace India points out the obvious	Tom Athanasiou	12 Dec 2007	Gristmill
The taxi driver that took me from the Bali airport to my hotel in Nusa Dua, the secure 'green zone' where the climate negotiations are taking place, didn't speak much English. Just well enough to say, haltingly, that he was 'too stupid' to have a better job, he didn't drink, and he was very depressed because he was lonely, but too poor to get married. Oh, and that the Westin, where I was not staying, was the 'best' place. Very 'luxury.' Very 'Western.' Now, a ...
Topics: Bali 07, China, climate, India, international politics, politics (all these topics)

Response to Jeremy Carl, part three The question for China and India is not whether to make the transition away from coal, but how soon	David Roberts	30 Nov 2007	Gristmill
In part one I made the point that if China and India develop along the same path as the West, we're all doomed. This fact is becoming increasingly clear to everyone. One way or another, whoever foots the bill, they'll have to change, and that means shifting to a more expensive-in-the-short-term source of electricity, of which clean coal is but one example among many. In part two I acknowledged that there are powerful arguments -- mainly social and political rather th ...
Topics: China, climate, coal, energy, India (all these topics)

Consider Sidr Sidr, a massive tropical cyclone, is going to hit Bangladesh-Indian border within 24 hrs	James Dailey	15 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Over the past several days, I've monitored reports of Sidr, a Tropical Cyclone churning its way up the Bay of Bengal. The forecasting models are based almost entirely on satellite imagery, and earlier in the week the computer models were telling forecasters it would weaken as it headed north. It hasn't: THE CURRENT FORECAST CALLS FOR A LESS-PRONOUNCED WEAKENING PRIOR TO LANDFALL THAN THE PREVIOUS FORECAST DUE TO THIS ENHANCED UPPER LEVEL OUTFLOW. THE TRACK REASONING ...
Topics: Bangladesh, climate, India, severe weather (all these topics)

Clinton Global Initiative: Clinton on efficiency Bill Clinton calls for countries to follow Japan's lead	Brian Beutler	27 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Bill Clinton introduced the morning plenary today by, once again, honoring the companies and people who've committed to the Clinton Global Initiative to take steps to increase energy efficiency and decrease greenhouse-gas emissions. But he touted one dubious statistic: If China, India, and the United States were to become as efficient as Japan, that would decrease global greenhouse-gas output by 20 percent. That statistic is based on this study by the McKinsey Inst ...
Topics: politics, Bill Clinton, climate, international politics, Japan, China, India, United States (all these topics)

Suffer the little children -- from carbon offsets? A clean tech firm accuses a carbon credit nonprofit of forcing kids to do fieldwork	Elsa Mary	25 Sep 2007	Gristmill
You might blame a leading carbon-offset provider of forcing poor kids to work, according to The Times of London. Or not. Carbon credit firm Climate Care pays families in India to use human-powered treadle pumps to get water out of the ground for drinking and farming. As a result, half a million foot pumps have replaced diesel ones, which pollute and cost a lot to fuel. Unfortunately, Climate Care doesn't ensure the diesel pumps are retired instead of finding new lif ...
Topics: agriculture, carbon offsets, climate, energy, India (all these topics)

Second to Naan A worried India takes steps toward national climate plan		16 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
Second to Naan A worried India takes steps toward national climate plan India -- home to more than a billion people and a fast-expanding economy -- is taking its first steps toward a climate-change plan. On Friday, at the kick-off meeting of the National Council on Climate Change, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh gave a preview of a "Green India" strategy that will call for ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions, India, news (all these topics)

That sinking feeling You ever have that nightmare where the lifeline becomes a deadly snake?	JMG	28 Jun 2007	Gristmill
India's emissions may be higher due to dams: India's greenhouse gas emissions could be 40 percent higher than official estimates if methane released from dams is taken into account, according to a new study. Methane -- about 23 times more powerful than carbon dioxide in terms of the amount of heat it traps -- is released from reservoirs, spillways and turbines of hydropower dams as a result of rotting carbon-containing vegetation. But India, already one of the world's t ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, India (all these topics)

Power, program, and practical considerations: Objectives How to build a real climate movement	Ken Ward	30 Apr 2007	Gristmill
((brightlines_include)) Campaigns and programs crafted to advance the Bright Lines strategy must also fit real world constraints and political realities on the ground, and take account of external roadblocks to effective action. The following objectives address these issues. 1. Tangible risk. Climate change is like world hunger: it's an issue of concern when media attention is high, just as coverage of periodic famines raises concern about world hunger. Most American ...
Topics: China, climate, climate change mitigation, climate change skepticism, India, politics (all these topics)

Another day, another carbon trading scandal Gee whiz	Gar Lipow	22 Apr 2007	Gristmill
The London Times covers a carbon trading scandal in in India. Like our own New York Times, they bury the lede: BRITISH companies are handing over millions of pounds to an Indian chemical plant so that western firms can continue to pump out thousands of tons of greenhouse gases. Indian company SRF, which produces refrigeration gases in Rajasthan, stands to make a profit of more than �300m. That is how carbon trading is supposed to work, right? Even if they are makin ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, India, politics, United Kingdom (all these topics)

The responsibility era	David Roberts	20 Apr 2007	Gristmill
The editors of The New Republic make a simple point that can't be made often enough: The conservative notion that reducing GHG emissions in the U.S. is pointless unless China and India do the same is a moral grotesquery. We created the problem. Ethically and geopolitically, we are responsible for leading the way to a solution. Call it "the responsibility era."
Topics: China, climate, climate change mitigation, India, politics, United States (all these topics)

Now That's a Bald Spot Demand for air conditioning in developing countries hurts ozone		23 Feb 2007	Daily Grist
Now That's a Bald Spot Demand for air conditioning in developing countries hurts ozone Remember when Britney had just broken up with K-Fed, and she seemed happy and healthy and getting her life back on track, and then things ... took a turn for the worse? Let us draw a slightly strained analogy to the ozone layer. As ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons were banned in Europe and began to be phased out in the U.S., the y ...
Topics: China, climate, India, news, ozone (all these topics)

Tongue Wrestling In India, U.K., and U.S., climate change is cause for conflict		05 Jan 2007	Daily Grist
Tongue Wrestling In India, U.K., and U.S., climate change is cause for conflict Climate challenges erupted all over the globe this week. In India, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told a group of 5,000 scientists that the developing world "cannot afford to ape the West in terms of its environmentally wasteful lifestyle," adding that India must invest in alternative energy ...
Topics: Angela Merkel, climate, George Bush, Germany, India, news, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Countries May Have Shifted During Flight China builds new airports; still not as pollutey as U.S.		10 May 2006	Daily Grist
Countries May Have Shifted During Flight China builds new airports; still not as pollutey as U.S. China plans to build 48 new airports in the next five years, spending $17.5 billion on construction and continuing expansion of existing hubs. The country is already the premier buyer of Boeing and Airbus planes, and has vowed to buy 100 planes every year until 2010. (For perspective: China's new hubs will bring its ...
Topics: China, climate, India, news, placemaking (all these topics)

Where There's Smokescreen There's Ire U.S. and Asia-Pacific countries gear up for not-Kyoto climate meeting		09 Jan 2006	Daily Grist
Where There's Smokescreen There's Ire U.S. and Asia-Pacific countries gear up for not-Kyoto climate meeting The first meeting of the Asia-Pacific climate partnership will kick off this Wednesday in Australia. The six participating nations -- Australia, China, India, Japan, South Korea, and the U.S. -- will emphasize the transfer of clean technologies to developing countries, in ...
Topics: Australia, China, climate, India, Japan, news, South Korea, United States (all these topics)

Emission Creep Critics question World Bank's role as carbon trader, fossil-fuel funder	Daphne Wysham	25 Mar 2005	Soapbox
For as long as it's been around, the World Bank has been prone to mission creep. Established 60 years ago to rebuild war-torn Europe, it morphed into an institution whose raison d'etre was to help developing countries advance, then refined its focus on poverty alleviation and sustainable development in the 1980s and '90s. During that time, it took on the role of effectively creatin ...
Topics: Brazil, business, climate, India, pollution and waste, South Africa (all these topics)

Homeocidal Herbal Medicine Trade Threatens Thousands of Plant Species		09 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Homeocidal Herbal Medicine Trade Threatens Thousands of Plant Species The booming worldwide market for herbal medicines threatens between 8 and 20 percent of the 50,000 known wild medicinal plant species with extinction, according to a forthcoming study by the World Wildlife Fund. Having risen by10 percent per ...
Topics: Asia, China, climate, European Union, globalization, green living, health, India, North America, population, wildlife, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Delhi Pickle		30 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Delhi Pickle India, the nation that is hosting the eighth in a series of U.N. meetings on climate change, is using the occasion to chastise industrialized nations for pressuring poor countries to cut greenhouse emissions. Speaking at the meeting in Delhi, Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee argued that emissions-reduction programs would undermine efforts by India and other developing nations to strengthen their economies and lift their popul ...
Topics: climate, India (all these topics)

A Dehli-cate Balance		23 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
A Dehli-cate Balance Delegates from around the world are meeting in New Delhi, India, today for the latest round of international talks on climate change. In part because the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gas emissions -- the United States -- has rejected the Kyoto Protocol, the meeting is focusing on ways to adapt to climate change rather than on ways to curb it. Delegates will discuss "minimizing vul ...
Topics: climate, India, politics, United States (all these topics)

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