Normally disclaimers are posted on the forums like website, google-group, print media and news channels. For the first time I’m writing a claimer. When we in Indian Youth Climate Network (IYCN) decided to endorse Independent People’s Tribunal (IPT) against forced displacement, land acquisition and operation green hunt, we were bombarded with lot of questions like: Why are we doing this? This is very sensitive issue, we should not touch it. Why IYCN and http://whatswiththeclimate.org are the bodies sending out and advertising the proceedings (of IPT), of course these things are tangentially related but it strikes odd and in some ways unsmart to be laying all this into IYCN.
The report of our activites on the world water day has been uploaded here. Click here to download.
Taking cue from the water day activities, we are preparing for another important day, the world earth day. This year being the 40th anniversary of the earth day, millions of people across the world are coming together to observe it. We at IYCN plan to take forward some of the campaigns we have started for the water day and start similar campaigns across the country and also encourage others to be a part of the campaign.
More details to come soon.
Dams or No Dams ? - Development for whom and at what cost ? These are few questions which Vimal Bhai (Mattu People's Organization) has tried to answer in his article about Ganga.
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Views expressed herein are that of the author Elite Extravagance The international climate discussions will go nowhere until class and capitalism are understood as central to the issue. By Nagraj Adve Much is made of the fact – most of all by the Indian government – that ‘India’s’ average per capita emissions, roughly 1.3 to 1.4 tonnes of carbon dioxide-equivalent a year, are lower than the global average, and considerably lower than that of the US or Europe. But the fact is, there is no ‘India’; the government is merely hiding behind the poor. The report by the Committee on Conditions of Work and Promotion of Livelihoods in the Unorganized Sector revealed that a jaw-dropping 836 million people in India consume less than INR 20 a day, of which 444 million ‘marginally poor’ people consume less than INR 15. Needless to say, at INR 15-20 a day one cannot contribute much to global warming, however hard one might try.
To raise awareness of the looming fate of the Maldives and to push for stronger
climate resolutions, President Nasheed will hold a Cabinet meeting underwater. President Mohamed Nasheed and his ministers held an official cabinet meeting in an unusual location – underwater today.
To call attention to their country’s plight as a nation already feeling the effects of climate
change, ministers will ratify a statement calling for rapid greenhouse gas reductions to 350
parts per million CO2 – the Cabinet meeting was done and the proceedings would be presented to the UN.
"It makes complete sense that the largest campaign of global action on climate ever should
