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View: Greening public transport is absolutely necessary; Budget allocation to tackle air pollution is a startEmissions from transport must abate for India to meet its NDC target. Increasing the share of public transport (to 50%) and non-motorised (...- Budget 2018: Cost-benefit analyses that reveal the most deserving priorities for IndiaThe budget process is complex, and much care will be taken to ensure that choices work coherently to create a stronger, more prosperous nat...
- COP21: Time to take 'climate' out of 'climate aid'OECD has analysed 70% of total global development aid and found that about one in four of those dollars now goes to climate-related aid.
- Improve infrastructure to cut food wastageIn South-east Asia, over 18% food is wasted. If we could halve the South and South=east Asian waste, we could feed an extra 234 million peo...
- Free trade, freer migration could help tackle povertyExtreme poverty – by current reckoning, living on less than $1.25 a day – is a continuing problem for far too many people today.
- Reliable and affordable energy : Make clean stoves, electricity part of the new promisesWorldwide, almost 3 bn people still don’t have access to modern energy, instead they use firewood, dung and crop waste for cooking and heat...
- Climate change: With higher incomes, people will care more for environmentFreer trade will allow more people to escape poverty and secure sufficient food and clean water.
- Green Power: Wind power does not help to avert climate changeMost people believe that a few wind turbines can be attractive, but it is an entirely different matter when turbines are scattered across t...
- Media reporting of climate change exaggerates its impactThe latest IPCC report is important because it illustrates real problems posed by global warming, without exaggerating them for sake of goo...
- IBSA puts equity back on climate talks agendaThe Tshwane Declaration of India, South Africa and Brazil as part of the IBSA grouping's dialogue hinged the Indian climate change policy b...
- Cancun climate summit garners hope of balanced outcomeJust a week ahead of the climate change summit in Cancun, there appears to be some resurgence of hope that the UN sponsored process will re...
- Green is the right answerFund basic tech research to tackle climate challenge
- Cars, bombs, and climate changeLet's replace hyperbole with a little more realism.
- Two cheers for China's climate wallBeijing won't do anything to hurt its economic growth that has improved living standards of its poor.
- The tales of woe we are deaf toGlobal warming's victims have other urgent concerns.
- Treason in the air, once againShutting down discussions bout global warming simply means the disappearance of reason from public policy.
- Climate change posersOne of the stranger spectacles of climate change debate was the sight of NASA climate scientist marching with actress Darryl Hannah in Wash...
- Obama and global warmingGlobal warming should be tackled, but through research and development of low-carbon alternatives.
- The green pseudo-revolutionWith worldwide recession advancing, strong action on global warming has been thrown into jeopardy.
- Economists ponder over global challengesThe Copenhagen Consensus Center (CCC) is receiving research reports which will help it rank grave world problems.
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