Keeping below 2 deg : Non-State Actors
My speech at Positive Economy Forum at Le Havre- Voluntary Initiatives including that of Private sector hold the key to Climate Change challenge. (more…)...
COP21 and Agenda21: Communities will dominate 21st Century
The Volcan and Théâtre de l’Hôtel de Ville of Le Havre in France welcomed record 7000 attendees, more than 300 business leaders, NGO representatives, thinkers and change-makers from all over the world, (more…)...
President Of World Bank on Ending Extreme Poverty
Hoardings on ' Poverty Eradication' inside and outside the audaciously lavish Headquarters of World Bank in Washington DC, that I had visited number of times, is the most prominent contrast and dichotomy that I have ever seen. (more…)...
We are all made of soil…
Dr. Vandana Shiva's power words . Let us celebrate the 22nd of April which is now Mother’s Earth Day (more…)...
Renewable Energy EmPOWERing youth
The developing countries are poised to be the precious solar and biomass mines of the renewable energy that will be increasingly sought by the developed countries. The history will repeat , except that instead of exploring for for spices now the developed country explorers will seek solar energy.
Renewable energy will account for the majority of worldwide power capacity growth over the next 15 years.
Investment for power generation infrastructure is migrating from the developed economies in the North to the developing economies, in political known as "global south" and from digging underground like for fossil fuels to flapping in the skies and riding on the oceans.
A message that I gave in my speech to engineering and research students from Sahakar Maharshi Shankarrao Mohite Patil Institute of Technology and Research was:
“ Renewable energy will empower youth in the developing and emerging economies like India. India has the potential to become important country...
Three decades of Stratospheric Odyssey
Speech by Rajendra Shende, Chairman TERRE Policy Centre at Workshop in side event in Bangkok
My long journey in United Nations has more than proved that global environmental negotiations pose complex diplomatic challenges and formidable legal conundrums. (more…)...
Is talking sustainability an escape route?
Jeffrey D. Sachs presents how global citizens can take a holistic pathway forward to address the seemingly intractable worldwide problems of persistent extreme poverty, environmental degradation, and political-economic injustice: sustainable development.
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Floods of promises: Climate summit of UN SG at NY
I was there in audience in New York when UN Secretary General gave this speech. Will be useful to see how much of these passionate promises, rocky determinations and financial commitments get realized.
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Success, tangible and unintended results-Montreal Protocol
"By 2030, the Protocol may be preventing 2 million cases of skin cancer each year. It will have prevented significant loss of food crops which in turn would have compounded future severe food security challenges" Achim Steiner, USG and ED of UNEP.
Speech:
Distinguished delegates, Dear colleagues,
It gives me great pleasure to welcome you today to the joint meeting of the Conference of the parties to the Vienna Convention and the parties to the Montreal Protocol.
As we gather here, other events are forming around us. We are now on the eve of 2015, a year which will mark 30 years since the adoption of one of the most successful environmental conventions, the Vienna Convention and also a year of important negotiations - economy, sustainable development , climate change.
Overview / Setting the scene
Your work on ozone-depleting substances is one of the greatest success stories of international environmental management in global partnership with universal...
Why did we land in this problem?
This year is 325th anniversary of the French revolution that changed the world, and India hopes to see in Paris next year in 2015, yet another revolution on climate change to reset the world clock towards climate resilient society.
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