World Water Day: Resources and resourcefulness
Guardian Unlimited | 22 Mar 2011
A new film shows the ingenuity of people living without access to water in areas of Delhi that are neither rural nor urban. A film exploring the relationship between three Delhi residents, water and India has been launched by the ESRC STEPS Centre, based at the Institute of Development Studies in...
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Indian steel mill gets green light despite government environment pledge
Guardian Unlimited | 23 Feb 2011
The $12bn steel plant would displace 22,000 people, but India says foreign investment depends on it. India's environment minister, Jairam Ramesh, is fond of saying that the policy of his ministry is to strike a balance between economic development and environmental protection. But his critics...
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Indian steel plant gets go-ahead despite fierce opposition
Guardian Unlimited | 31 Jan 2011
Posco, a South Korean firm, to build huge plant in Orissa despite fears for local people and damage to the environment. India's biggest direct foreign investment project - a huge and controversial steel plant – got the go ahead from the Indian environment ministry today despite years of fierce opposition from local campaigners who claim that the lives of tens of thousands of villagers will be destroyed along with swathes of forest and coastline.
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India's hidden climate change catastrophe
The Independent | 02 Jan 2011
Naryamaswamy Naik went to the cupboard and took out a tin of pesticide. Then he stood before his wife and children and drank it. "I don't know how much he had borrowed. I asked him, but he wouldn't say," Sugali Nagamma said, her tiny grandson playing at her feet. "I'd tell him: don't worry, we can...
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Avoid US route: Indian minister says American way is 'recipe for disaster'
Guardian Unlimited | 23 Nov 2010
Politician who has has hit headlines for green interventions warns of 'grave development risks'. The Indian environment minister, Jairam Ramesh, has attacked the growing Indian taste for the American lifestyle, which he called the "most unsustainable in the world today". In an interview with the...
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Carbon emissions dip in 2009, to jump in 2010
Reuters | 21 Nov 2010
Global emissions of planet-warming carbon dioxide are on track to hit a record in 2010, a leading annual study said on Monday, driven largely by booming economies in China and India and their reliance on coal.
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India says is now third highest carbon emitter
Reuters | 04 Oct 2010
India's environment minister said on Monday the country could not have high economic growth and a rapid rise in carbon emissions now that the nation was the number three emitter after China and the United States.
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Climate change can quicken India's coastal winds
SCIDEV.NET | 21 May 2010
Climate change can increase wind speeds along peninsular Indias long coastline. Published this month (4 May) in Ocean Engineering, the study simulated the effect of climate change on design wind — the wind speed which can be equalled or exceeded once in a specific number of years — which is linked to the expected lifespan of harbour, coastal and offshore structures.
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Power sector helps drive jump in India CO2 emissions
Reuters | 11 May 2010
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's greenhouse gas emissions grew 58 percent between 1994 and 2007, official figures released on Tuesday showed, helped up by a largely coal-reliant power sector that nearly doubled its share in emissions.Total emissions rose to 1.9 billion tonnes in 2007 versus 1.2 billion in 1994, with industry and transport sectors also upping their share in Asia's third largest economy and confirming India's ranking among the world's top five carbon polluters.
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Man with a mission
chinadialogue.net | 29 Mar 2010
Kirit Parikh, former member of Indias Planning Commission, chairs a 26-member expert group tasked with developing a low-carbon growth strategy for India. Here, he tells Anna da Costa about his plans..
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