India will continue to use coal to meet its energy demands, says Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). “You cannot, in a democracy, ignore some of these realities and as it happens with the resources of coal that India has we really don’t have any choice but to use coal in the immediate short term,” he said. The Hindu, 22 July 2009
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Cap n Trade Politics in Australia
Australia’s Malcolm Turnbull has backed off suggestions that the Coalition would wave through Kevin Rudd’s emissions trading scheme in the Senate next month after angry Coalition MPs hit out at the Leader of the Opposition yesterday. Read more here.
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD has worked in industry and government. She is currently researching a novel technique for long-range weather forecasting funded by the B. Macfie Family Foundation.