The Citizens Global Platform
(India) in response to the Bali declaration has said, the issues of
climate change should be strategically made a very serious issue with
wider awareness campaign at all levels—local community, children and
youth in every corner of the country—and efforts, to address the
impacts of climate change from the grass root level to policy level
should be encouraged. CGP-I is part of the global initiative by civil
society actors in Tanzania and Finland, Brazil and open to all those
interested in global issues.
The public transport system should be encouraged to reduce carbon
emission. People should be mobilized to boycott products that are not
eco-friendly and products from countries that are not taking efforts to
cut down their emission.
CGP-I is convening a global conference in Nagpur on December 29, this
year to take stock of the situation aftermath the Bali conference, said
the convenor, Y David
Efforts should be made to cut emissions in the energy sector. Instead
of coal, there can be a strong expansion of the use of the renewable
energy and other low carbon energy sources like solar energy, wind
energy that could meet India's energy demand, said the CGP-I
coordinator, Mukesh Bahuguna.
CGP-I alleged that the State has
become the manager of water
resources and has taken over the role from communities and households
and is promoting privatization of water resources and is embarking upon
construction of large dams and development projects affecting the
eco-system. Alternatively, CPG suggested small and micro-harvesting
systems as an integral part of basin wise planning and local
self-government (panchayats) vested with the responsibility of
equitable water sharing.
It urged that rivers in India and
all over the
world should be protected as nature's property and utmost care has to
be given to control pollution in water bodies. More investment should
be made on research for locally available eco-friendly energy sources
and national institutes should be established to encourage initiatives
for alternate eco-friendly energy sources. Climate change mitigation
must not be viewed in isolation from other highly important challenges,
such as equitable access to energy, clean water, alleviating poverty
and achieving economic growth in emerging Markets.
CGP-India group called for an
integrated approach
to the problem from the production to consumption level .The real
solution to global warming lies in the change in the paradigm of
development. There should be a total change in the present model of
production which encourages competition and exploitation. Development
should be people-centered, eco-friendly for every creation of nature to
sustain its livelihood.
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