GREENHOUSE GAS REDUCTION- INDIA HAS THE SOLUTION !

Most countries plan to reduce emission intensity; it’s just that no one wants it to be legally binding

CHINA
6.8 bn tonnes annually, 5.5 tonnes per capita
What it’s giving
China says it will cut its carbon intensity by 40-45% by 2020, compared with 2005
What it wants
Developed nations’ targets to reduce GHG emissions not deep enough. It expects average cuts of at least 40% from 1990 levels by 2020 & wants a promise of more aid and technology
US
6.4 bn tonnes annually, 21 tonnes per capita
What it’s giving
The US has promised to cut 2005 emissions by 17%by 2020. It will extend cuts to 30% below 2005 levels by 2025, and 83% by 2050. Will work toward a goal of jointly mobilizing $100bn a year by 2020. Has pledged $1bn towards slowing deforestation
What it wants
An accord that covers all issues and has ‘immediate operational effect’
EU
5.03 bn tonnes annually, 5.5 tonnes per capita
What it’s giving
EU leaders agreed in Dec ’08 to cut emissions by 20% below 1990 levels by 2020 & by 30% if other developed nations follow suit. EU leaders have agreed that developing nations will need about $147 bn a year by 2020 to adapt to climate change
What it wants
EU wants developing nations to curb the rise of emissions by 15-30% by 2020

JAPAN
1.4 bn tonnes annually, 11 tonnes per capita
What it’s giving
Japan will cut emissions by 25% below 1990 levels by 2020. PM Hatoyama said Tokyo would also step up aid
AFRICA
Negligible emissions
Where they’re willing to compromise
African group scaled back demands for aid from rich countries, meeting offers made by developed nations
What it’s giving
Want developed nations to cut emissions by 45% below 1990 levels by 2020
INDIA
1.4 bn tonnes annually, 1.2 tonnes per capita
What it’s giving
Aims to cut carbon intensity by between 20-25% by 2020, from ’05 levels
What it wants
Like China, India wants rich nations to cut emissions by at least 40% by 2020 Additionally INDIA wants that each develped country introduces power cuts and loadsharing as usual in India. Having 4 hour of power cut each day the WEST would be able to save a lot more in green hous gases. As an additional step water rations should be introduced as e.g. 4 hours of tap water availability per day as usual in some Delhi districts.

DALAI LAMA's VIST TO TAWANG (ARUNACHAL)

Speaking to his followers, the Dalai Lama declared that Arunachal Pradesh was an important part of India, and spoke emotionally about his attachment to the town were he first arrived when he fled China's invasion on Tibet in 1959.
"My stand that Tawang is an integral part of India has not changed," he said, and recalled his relief at being met in the town on his arrival from Tibet by an Indian foreign ministry official.
"There was a feeling of hopelessness when I first came here in 1959. But I felt safe when I saw a long-time friend from the Indian foreign ministry waiting for me at the border. That is why I have visited Tawang so many times. People here take a genuine interest in Tibetan Buddhism and Buddhist culture. Right from Ladakh to Tawang, Tibetan Buddhism is practised traditionally," he said.





His comments will further inflame Beijing's anger at the visit, not least his reference to Arunachal Pradesh and Ladakh in Jammu and Kashmir being areas of strong Tibetan Buddhist influence.
China claims vast swathes of both areas as its own and rejects the 1913 Shimla Convention at which the Tibet government ceded Tawang to British India and agreed the McMahon Line as the border between India and China.
China now regards the McMahon line as its last disputed border and has escalated tensions over the issue to pressurise India to make new concessions.
Beijing renewed its attack on the Dalai Lama's visit yesterday accusing him of visiting the area at India's behest to bolster its claim to the area China calls "Southern Tibet". Its official media has also denounced him as a "liar" for comments on fear among his people in Tibet.

GLACIER MELTING AND THE PREDICTABLE CONSEQUENCES

The over centuries collected ice of the Himalaya is melting with a continuous rising speed. This will provoke catastrophic inundations. If the glaciers are melted India and China will be targeted by catastrophes: desert building and lack of drinking water.
At the higher altitudes of Central Asia the catastrophe is preparing. Scientist from over the world are observing the phenomena , sending out warning overheard by the Population: The glacier of the higher mountains are melting with a constantly rising speed, some of them will have been doomed to disappear in a couple of years. The one believing this is a locale problem is incorrect. Not only the cause is of global nature but also the effects of the melting process will bother the live of billions of people, by treating the sweet water supply of India and China
The glacier of the Himalaya and the Tibetan highlands are the biggest ice reservoirs of the heart beside the poles.
Tousend of valleys at high altitude are filled up with ice. The water born from the ice collects in big lakes, being the source of the rivers. Estimation counted 15,000 lakes with a common surface of 112,000 sqm. 9000 of theses are ending in lakes. Nobody knows the amount of water is stored in the frozen valleys. Satellite observations just give an imppression of the surface but no idea of the depth of the lakes.



Scientist estimate that the lost of ice mass is between 2 and seven per year. The length of the glacier is reduced by 60 to 70 m per year. . Conform to Achim Steiner, excutive director of the Environmental Program of the United Nations (UNEP the glacier on Chinese territory will by reduced by 2/3 in 2050. Some scientist believe by 2050 all glacier will have been disappeared.
This is not only due to global warming but also due the progressing industrialization of India and China emitting a huge amount on particulates rising to high altitudes and forming giant brown clouds (ABC’s) absorbing the infrared rays rising from the earth enhancing the green house effect. Additionally are the glacier covered with rubble and boulders reflecting the impacting sunrays a lot more than the reflecting ice?

Translated from an article from Roland Benn in Merian

The melting of the ice will form giant sees of melted ice. Only in Nepal and Bhutan there are 4997 of such lakes and are regular limited by the end – moraine of the moving ice. These lakes are now rising with a speed that the deposits of the moraine will not be able to withhold them and are coming to the point of bursting.
The result would be that enormous quantities of water coming from altitudes as high as 4000 m will burst into the lower valleys, several hundred thousand of people would than be in great danger
Scientist of UNEP recently detected 44 sees being at the critical point UNEP regional director Surendra Shrestha stipulated that the volume of the Tsho-Rolpa-See in Nepal as risen by a factor of 6 since the early 50’s. If the dam would break the water mixed with rubble will cause a flood catastrophe in an area of 100 km.

POVERTY IN INDIA - LOOKING FOR REASONS

Extract from an article of Jug Suraiya in Indian Times

Sixty-two years after independence, even as India boasts an economy widely acknowledged to be the second fastest growing in the world, there is another, alternative India which continues to be mired in the most appalling poverty. According to a recent World Bank report, 25 per cent of India’s population – that’s a projected 313 million human beings – will be living in “extreme poverty”, calculated at $1.25 a day, in 2015. India ranks only a little better than sub-Saharan Africa where the corresponding figure will be 37.1per cent, while that for China will be 6.1 per cent. In 1990, China’s “extreme poverty” population was 60.2 per cent, while that of India’s was 51.3 per cent. By 2005, totalitarian China had managed to reduce its figure to 15.9 per cent, while democratic India’s poverty quantum came down merely to 41.6 per cent. China had political dictatorship, but relative freedom from poverty; India enjoyed political freedom (at least in theory), but suffered under the brutal despotism of poverty.
This is not to argue the merits of dictatorship versus democracy. Without argument, democracy is better than dictatorship. If for no other reason than that in a democracy you can have a democracy-vsdictatorship debate; in a dictatorship you can’t. What can, and must, be argued, however, is that Indian democracy has tragically failed to protect so many of its citizens, for so long, from extreme economic degradation. The reasons for this – the many sins of omission and commission responsible for this shameful state of affairs – would fill entire libraries. But without going into details – where the Devil is said to lurk – it could, and ought, to be said that this national scandal clearly amounts to a case of massive and sustained malpractice on the part of all the governments elected into office since independence.
The answer to such questions is that our lawmakers see themselves, and have conditioned us to see them, as being above the laws they enact and enforce upon us. And till that changes, our much-celebrated dance of democracy will, for millions, remain a danse macabre. A dance of living death.

THE RICHEST & THE POOREST

Despite Indian’s surprising ongoing and very real economic growth and sustainability, there is a serious problem that cannot be overlooked. A SENSEX of 20.000, a growth of the stockholders by a factor of 5 in the last 3 years is hardly in line with the very growing real line of poverty.
Let us look at the latest figures:
Indian rank on the Global Hunger Index 2007 is 94’Th out of 118 countries listed. India is behind China ranking 47’Th and Pakistan ranked 88’Th
40% of the world underweight children live in India
Indian scores last from all countries as far as improvement of poverty is concerned if compared tom 1990.
Governmental figures reveal that 863 Mio people corresponding to 77 % of the population lives on 20 Rps per day that correspond 0.36 euro or 36 eurocent!!!
Millions of Indians go to bed hungry. !

The major reason is the lagging of economical growth in the agricultural sector, where other sectors are booming small farmers or farmers without land are so desperate that the amount of suicides is tremendous.

But also the religious incapability to reduce the amount of kids in the poor families, hardly able to nourish them, is a big part of the problem. I some parts of India the male family members eat first and the woman have to survive with the leftovers, resulting in children of undernourished and anemic mothers with high risk of being born underweighted. More woman die in India during childbirth than anywhere else in the world. Of the calculated value of 526,000 women who died during pregnancy or after childbirth in 2005 globally, Indian contributed with 117,000 followed by Nigeria with 59,000 and Congo with 32,000. The probability that that a girl will die from a complication during her pregnancy and childbirth is 1/70 in India.

Almost one in four woman who gave birth in the last 8 years

received no antenatal care. With Bihar (66 % with no care) has the worst case. Only 4% of the mothers was giving a deworming cure during pregnancy, something which might seems for western not necessary, but seeing the penible hygienic conditions of the water in India, ought to be a must in India.