Blog Posts by author Chandra Bhushan

Chandra Bhushan

Deputy Director General  of CSE and the head of the industry and environment programme, crunches climate numbers and demystifies climate technologies.

Everybody’s business
3 February 2012

 

Solar mission is too important to let doubtful dealings hijack it.

In public perception the renewable energy sector is a do-good sector that promises environment-friendly and affordable energy. It is for this reason that this sector gets overwhelming support from all sections of society. Civil society organisations, including the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), have worked hard over the years to increase awareness about renewable energy and have pushed the government policy towards ambitious programmes.

Energy Technology|LANCO Infratech|Solar|Blogs
The Protocol in dispute
9 December 2010

December 6, 2010

The post-2012 emissions reduction commitments for Annex 1 countries under the Kyoto Protocol (KP) are presently going nowhere. Japan had fired the first salvo when in the opening plenary, it categorically stated its opposition to the second commitment period of KP. Now, countries like Australia, Canada, and some European nations have joined the chorus to disband KP.

Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)|Climate Change|Kyoto Protocol; Climate Agreements; Emission Targets; Climate Mitigation|Blogs
Cancun musing
6 December 2010

I have reached Cancun few hours’ back to attend the 16th Conference of Parties (CoP-16) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and have been greeted with news that can only be characterised as bad or worse.

Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)|Climate Change|COP 16|Copenhagen Accord|European Union (EU)|India|LULUCF|Maldives|UNEP|Climate Change
Roadblocks to growth
5 May 2010

India is poised for a rapid economic growth - an 8 per cent GDP growth rate annually over the next two decades is now considered a settled matter. But there are major resource constraints to this growth story that economists talk about but have hardly taken into account in their growth projections. 

Cement Industry|GDP|Iron And Steel Industry|Land Acquisition|Mineral - Based Industry|Naxalites|Water Demand|Water Management|Industry & Environment
Low carbon or new development model?
29 April 2010
Aluminium Industry|Climate Mitigation|Coal|Emission Targets|Iron And Steel Industry|Paper And Pulp Industry|Blogs
Glaciating the climate debate
21 January 2010

The recent controversy on the IPCC report regarding Himalayan glaciers has been all over the media. Before dwelling on this matter further, it is important to recognize that it was a silly mistake on the part of the authors of the IPCC report (those who wrote and reviewed Chapter 10 of the Working Group II: Impacts, adaptation and vulnerabilities), to pick up a non-peer reviewed paper and quote it as a definitive finding. Silly still, they quoted a definitive year – 2035 – for the vanishing of the entire Himalayan glaciers.

Glaciers|Himalaya|Climate Change
 
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