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| September 2009 |
| Vol. VI Issue. 15; 29 September 2009 |
| Energy in India's Future: Insights - 29 September 2009 |
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"In the decades following India's independence from British rule in 1947, the West's image of India was summarized in three simple clichés: the world's largest democracy, an impoverished continent, and economic growth hampered by a fussy bureaucracy and the caste system, all in the context of a particular religion..."
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| Vol. VI Issue. 14; 22 September 2009 |
| Equity & Burden Sharing Central to Climate Justice - 22 September 2009 |
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"The question of equity and burden sharing is central to climate change debate. Lack of a global agreement on such an equitable formula is likely to cause the climate change negotiations to spill over to other multilateral, regional and bilateral negotiating platforms. This would further accentuate existing divisions such as North-South, East-West, Developed-Developing countries, etc..."
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| Vol. VI Issue. 13; 15 September 2009 |
| The Climate Negotiations - 15 September 2009 |
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"Under the current framework any conclusion would lead to limitations in the trajectory of our future emissions, and show us as unreasonable and irresponsible if we did not accept. Unfortunately, there are many voices within the country concurring with this view that we must "do something" to secure a global deal to save the world..."
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| Vol. VI Issue. 12; 08 September 2009 |
| Pricing of Natural Gas - 08 September 2009 |
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"India has a history of gas pricing which has been incrementally decided over the last twenty-five to thirty years. First government gases came in, then different production sharing contracts started coming in, then the private sector gases started coming in and the LNG started coming in..."
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| Vol. VI Issue. 11; 01 September 2009 |
| The Clash over Population Growth - 01 September 2009 |
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"Between 1960 and now, it took only roughly 12-14 years for the world's total population to increase by 1 billion while it took over 120 years for the population to increase by 1 billion between 1800 and 1920. Out of the 78 million people currently being added to the world each year, 95 percent live in developing nations. At the beginning of this century 70 percent of the world population resided in developing countries..."
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| August 2009 |
| Vol. VI Issue. 10; 25 August 2009 |
| Climate and the Clash between the Diversely Developed - 25 August 2009 |
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"Despite the persistence of extreme inequality, the 'growth' paradigm is perceived to be the necessary precondition for civil coexistence and governance of humankind today.
Will the phenomenon of climate change succeed in replacing this consumptive growth paradigm with a more sustainable and equitable one?..."
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| Vol. VI Issue. 9; 18 August 2009 |
| Developing Countries are well on their way to a Low Carbon Future - 18 August 2009 |
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"Two-thirds of the electricity that is generated in developed countries is used in households/buildings, i.e. in the residential sector while three fourths of the electricity generated in developing countries goes for industry. Developed countries which do not want to reduce two-thirds of its energy use which goes into small appliances used in households are seeking a reduction in the energy that goes into industries in developing countries..."
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| Vol. VI Issue. 8; 11 August 2009 |
| International Negotiations on Climate Change: Road to Copenhagen - 11 August 2009 |
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"Going by Science, the agreement in Copenhagen must allow us to limit average temperature increases to less than 2ºC by restricting CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere to about 450 parts per million. Towards this end, we need to identify common ground among parties. We also have to ensure that different dialogues on climate change feed into the negotiation process..."
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| Vol. VI Issue. 7; 04 August 2009 |
| The Colour of Oil - 04 August 2009 |
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"Big Oil's reluctance to invest more of its vast resources into the green space is a function of its vision. It is seeking to meet global oil demand while at the same time protecting its shareholders by focusing on the development of fossil fuels. Any evolution in that thinking will only occur if there is a fundamental change in global carbon policies and particularly those of the United States..."
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| July 2009 |
| Vol. VI Issue. 6; 28 July 2009 |
| The Tale of the Sad Negotiator - 28 July 2009 |
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"Post World War II saw the project of 'development' that the international community took upon itself as its sacred 'burden' making it the modus operandi by which the post-colonial economies could be integrated and 'internationalised' into the global arena. With the turn of the century, the project of climate change seeks to re-affirm the order of technological dominance..."
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