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    a Plan without a vision -critical concerns infocus page july 2008
    IN FOCUS
    A Plan without a Vision?
    The long-awaited National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) is an important mark in the climate chnage debate in India. It is not, however, an adequate response to the scale of the challenge. Despite these drawbacks, simply having such a plan is significant for climate related debates in India


    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.

    The Plan is meant to evolve and change with scientific developments and through multilateral negotiations, the prime minister said...

    India releases 8-point agenda to combat climate change
    by Padmaparna Ghosh,
    MINT, Mumbai,

    01 Jul 2008

    The mean world of climate change
    by Sunita
    Narain,
    Down To Earth Magazine, 
    16 Jul 2008


    Climate change -India's worries
    by
    Raj Chengappa,
    India Today Magazine,
    14 Jul 2008


    Stand Up And Deliver
    by R K Pachuri,
    The Times of India, Mumbai,
    14 Jul 2008
     


    Hot Currents 
    by Seema Sirohi,
    Outlook Magazine,

    14 Jul 2008



    G8 falls short on climate
    The Hindu, Chennai,
    12 Jul 2008


    National Action Plan On Climate Change,
    Extracted  from National Actional Plan On Climate Change,
    government of India, Prime Minister's Council On Climate Change 




    In The Woods Over Environment Policy
     by Bittu Sahgal,
    Tehelka
    Magazine,
    19 Jul 2008


    Doomsday report
    by Chetan Chauhan,
    The Hindustan Times, New Delhi,
    02 Jul 2008'


    The Hokkaido communique on climate change of the Group of Eight countries does not lay down targets for emissions reductions in the developed countries. Yet the G-8 asks developing countries to take more meaningful mitigation actions. How does India's new national action plan propose to deal with climate change and how is it different from the approach being suggested by the G-8?

    The G-8 and India's National Action Plan on Climate Change
    by Mukul Sanwal  
    Economic & Political Weekly, Magazine,

    19 Jul 2008

    IN FOCUS - June 2008 issue

    Crises within a Crisis

    What we see unfolding before us in the wake of the global food crisis - severe shortage of chemical fertilisers, the unnecessary hurry to push through GMOs and the failure of the Rome conference to come up with fresh initiatives to overcome the crisis - indicate that the right to profit has taken precedence over the right to food. Across the globe, the entire chain of resources and inputs are now being cornered by corporations. Farm land, water, fertiliser, seeds, pesticides and many more.

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