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| July 2008 |
A Plan without a Vision
The
long-awaited National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) is an
important mark in the climate change debate in India. It is not,
however, an adequate response to the scale of the challenge.India has faced considerable, and largely unfair, pressure from the industrialised world to take action for a problem substantially created by them. At the same time, India has much to lose from a changing climate, and much to gain for climate and non-climate reasons from enhancing the ecological sustainability of our development path.
The NAPCC starts with an important commitment to re-direct growth objectives toward ecological sustainability, but provides a mixed bag of measures through which to do so. As a result, the NAPCC document is neither fully vision nor plan. And it fails to grapple squarely with the international deadlock in the climate arena. Despite these drawbacks, simply having such a plan is significant for climate related debates in India.
On the other, the G8 summit in Japan was also expected to address the issue of climate change and come up with a vision statement as how it is to be achieved.
But what emerged from the summit leads to the conclusion that the rate of progress on critical issues between successive summits is questionable. The leadership of the richest countries in the world needs to reflect on their responsibility to the global community at large and the expectations which call for bolder measures and major changes in the interests of protecting the planet and all species living on it.
If the G8 countries, led by the United States, are indeed serious about mitigating climate change, they must deliver on their promises between now and 2012, when the Kyoto Protocol ends. They need to work with utmost urgency to cut their own emissions from a meaningful baseline.
| Climate Change | Abstract of below articles >>> |
- India
releases 8-point agenda to combat climate change by Padmaparna
Ghosh, MINT, Mumbai,
- National
Action
Plan On Climate Change, Extracted
from National Actional Plan On
Climate Change,
government of
- Greens
pick holes in climate plan , G.S. Mudur,
The
Telegraph,
- The
mean world of climate change , Sunita
Narain, Down To Earth Magazine,
- Climate
change -India's worries , Raj Chengappa,
India Today
Magazine,
- G8
falls short on climate, The Hindu, Chennai,
- Stand
Up And Deliver, R K Pachuri, The Times
of
- Hot
Currents , Seema Sirohi, Outlook Magazine,
- In
The Woods Over Environment Policy by Bittu
Sahgal, Tehelka
Magazine,
- Doomsday
report by Chetan Chauhan,
The Hindustan Times,
- The
G-8 and India's National Action Plan on Climate Change ,Mukul Sanwal Economic & Political Weekly,
Magazine,