Thursday, June 04, 2009
India threatened by changes to the monsoon: Greenpeace
MUMBAI: The Indian monsoon, the country's lifeline, will be significantly affected by climate change, says a report released by the NGO Greenpeace on the eve of World Environment Day.
The report, Monsoon Wager: Climate change and the Indian Monsoon, says climate change could bring about significant change to the intensity, geographic distribution and inter seasonal breaks in the monsoon, which would have enormous social consequences. "The lives of millions of Indians, farmers, city dwellers, even those trading on the Mumbai Sensex, depend on the monsoon. The unprecedented flooding that Mumbai experienced in 2005 is estimated to have caused a direct loss of about Rs.450 crore," said Vinuta Gopal, climate and energy campaigner of Greenpeace.
Eight Greenpeace activists hung an 80-foot banner on the Mumbai-Thane bridge Thursday. "Dr Manmohan Singh, Save our Monsoon".
Greenpeace demanded that the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh put India's climate policy on track and urge other world leaders to do the same. "The climate summit to be held in Copenhagen in December needs to come up with an agreement that will save the planet. The longer the climate negotiators delay the greater the threat to India's one billion inhabitants. With only six months to go, time is running out".
IMO: This action makes a lot of sense. Very little of the cause of global warming is so far due to India. As one of the nations suffering most, this means that future antipollution planning of the Indian economy should help to put matters right. And bearing in mind that USA, UK, China and Russia are the chief polluters, THEY SHOULD PAY INDIA, so India can move further into the position of the world's leading and least polluting nation. Right now, per head India must be one of the least polluting nations in the world, LET US KEEP IT THERE AND IMPROVE STILL FURTHER. Measures like the proposed 1500 new Universities, less polluting power plants and even new cars of a less polluting nature, would help and could benefit India directly at the same time.
The report, Monsoon Wager: Climate change and the Indian Monsoon, says climate change could bring about significant change to the intensity, geographic distribution and inter seasonal breaks in the monsoon, which would have enormous social consequences. "The lives of millions of Indians, farmers, city dwellers, even those trading on the Mumbai Sensex, depend on the monsoon. The unprecedented flooding that Mumbai experienced in 2005 is estimated to have caused a direct loss of about Rs.450 crore," said Vinuta Gopal, climate and energy campaigner of Greenpeace.
Eight Greenpeace activists hung an 80-foot banner on the Mumbai-Thane bridge Thursday. "Dr Manmohan Singh, Save our Monsoon".
Greenpeace demanded that the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh put India's climate policy on track and urge other world leaders to do the same. "The climate summit to be held in Copenhagen in December needs to come up with an agreement that will save the planet. The longer the climate negotiators delay the greater the threat to India's one billion inhabitants. With only six months to go, time is running out".
IMO: This action makes a lot of sense. Very little of the cause of global warming is so far due to India. As one of the nations suffering most, this means that future antipollution planning of the Indian economy should help to put matters right. And bearing in mind that USA, UK, China and Russia are the chief polluters, THEY SHOULD PAY INDIA, so India can move further into the position of the world's leading and least polluting nation. Right now, per head India must be one of the least polluting nations in the world, LET US KEEP IT THERE AND IMPROVE STILL FURTHER. Measures like the proposed 1500 new Universities, less polluting power plants and even new cars of a less polluting nature, would help and could benefit India directly at the same time.
# posted by uv : 8:23 AM
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