The Daily IIJ

Gigil Varghese
Ten youngsters, including environmental lawyers, doctoral students and IITians, are going on a month-long expedition starting January on electric-cum-solar powered vehicles to spread the message about clean and green living.

The group, which will traverse the length of the country from Chennai to Delhi, covering about 3,500 km, will be in Mumbai from January 17 [...]

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Gigil Varghese
Poznan (Poland), December 9
India wants the European Union and the American to take the same governmental initiative they took to resolve the financial crisis to enable technology transfer of cleaner technologies to tackle climate change.

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Gigil Varghese
Poznan
“We cannot tackle climate change without Carbon Capture Storage (where the carbon is trapped and is buried in the ground at very high pressure) and nuclear technology for the time being,” said United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) secretary, Yu De Boer at the Climate Change Conference in Poznan, Poland.

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Gigil Varghese
Poznan, December 9
A film on Climate Change titled ‘The age of Stupid’ stars the Bombay Dyeing head honcho Nusli Wadia’s younger son, Jeh Wadia with Oscar nominated star Pete Postlethwaite of the 1993 film “In the name of the Father’. The documentary film had a private screening in Poznan on the sidelights of the [...]

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Gigil Varghese
Poznan, December
There will be a change on the domestic environmental policy of the United States of America under the President elect Barrack Obama to save a ‘Planet in Peril’. However, there will be no change on US’s international stand that India and China need to cut down on carbon emissions, according to the US [...]

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Gigil Varghese
Poznan, December 8
 
The financial crisis will certainly have a major impact on the climate proceedings in Poznan, focusing attention on the ongoing debate of whether environmentally friendly projects will facilitate or mar short-term economic health of countries.
“The Poznan conference is taking place in the broader context of the current global financial crisis and impending [...]

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Gigil Varghese
Poland, December 6
Control, adapt or flee, the question posed at the United Nations University at the Climate Change Conference in Poznan on Friday with respect to environmental refugees.
The United Nations University undertook the first ever people based study on climate change motivated migration. “There are 24 million environmental refugees today and the number [...]

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Gigil Varghese, Berlin
In a large green expanse of 5000 square meters one hundred tones of maize (corn) – over half a million medium-sized loaves of bread – are being converted into 48 mega watts of energy every day. Agri-Capital, the biogas energy company in Konnern has 30 such biogas plants in Germany.
Europe and America in [...]

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