March 2015 - India Climate Dialogue

Budget 2015: Rhetoric or serious thinking in climate policymaking?

by Tirthankar Mandal | Mar 31, 2015

India’s annual budget has missed a chance to lay down a roadmap for moving towards a low carbon future

The latest Indian Economic Survey has suggested a number of ‘green’ actions the government should undertake. The big ones are effective reduction of subsidies to coal and oil, and a move towards taxing carbon emissions. In light of the forthcoming series of international negotiations…Read more

US, China, India have world’s dirtiest old coal-fired power plants

by Aarti Khosla | Mar 31, 2015

The old ‘subcritical’ coal-fired power plants are the least efficient, guzzle the most water and are the worst polluters. The trouble is, they still form 77% of all coal-fired power plants, with a preponderance in China, the US and India

As the world grapples with the pursuit of clean energy, the global dependence on coal is
under increasing scrutiny. Thanks to subsidies, coal remains the cheapest energy source…Read more

Study soot to understand melting rate of glaciers

by T.V. Padma | Mar 30, 2015

An inventory on sources and flow of soot across India could be extrapolated to understand black carbon emissions across the Himalayas and their impact on glacial melt and flow

How exactly does soot or ‘black carbon’ particles released from the incomplete burning of fuels affect hydrologic sensitivity and glacial melt in the fragile Hindu Kush, Karakoram and Himalayan (HKH) mountain system? The answer…Read more

China faces ‘grave risks’ from climate change

by John McGarrity | Mar 28, 2015

Head of China’s weather service warns that climate change could make droughts, crop failures and energy shortages increasingly likely in the world’s most populous country

China’s most senior weather official has given a strong warning on climate change, saying that rising temperatures could have “huge impacts” on the country’s food and water supplies, state media reported on Sunday. Rising global…Read more

‘Under the Dome’ may be a turning point for China’s environment policy

by Dimitri de Boer | Mar 25, 2015

Chai Jing’s wildly successful documentary means that for Chinese environmental policy, nothing will ever quite be the same again

One year ago, I was hired to lead an EU-funded project under China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection that promotes disclosure of environmental information, public participation and access to justice. At the time, the initiative seemed like a hard sell…Read more

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