climate crisis Archives - Rajendra Shende

Financial Crisis and United Nations

November 5, 2014July 3, 2018 by Rajendra ShendeNo Comments

The world leaders know that UN is the only show in the town, only multilateral platform to address the global and regional concerns. UN is indispensible when it comes to handling multitude of crisis that are interlinked. Interview given by Rajendra Shende, Chairman TERRE Policy Centre to a newspaper in India, 2014. (more…)...

United Nations Pipe-Dreams -Climate Change and Biodiversity

October 15, 2014July 3, 2018 by Rajendra ShendeNo Comments

Is a Global Climate Treaty Only a Pipe Dream? UN Secretary General wakes up the global leaders (more…)...

We recognize our role in creating this problem; We embrace our responsibility to combat it.

September 23, 2014July 3, 2018 by Rajendra ShendeNo Comments

President Obama speech at U.N. Climate Change Summit United Nations Headquarters New York, New York 23 Sept 2014 (more…)...

Energy Enigma-A Trilemma

July 1, 2014July 3, 2018 by Rajendra ShendeNo Comments

The Indian Institutes of Technology Alumni Canada (IITAC), in collaboration with PanIIT-USA, hosted the PanIIT 2014 International Conference in Toronto, from June 6 to 8, 2014. (more…)...

The New York Times: Invites My Opinion on IPCC Fifth Assessment

April 21, 2014July 3, 2018 by Rajendra ShendeNo Comments

It is not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change, it has been said of the theory of natural selection. We should mimic color chugging reptiles (more…)...

Power Speech of President Obama that Changed the Climate of 2013: Can he walk the talk?

January 6, 2014July 3, 2018 by Rajendra ShendeNo Comments

Al Gore, Nobel Laureate stated that President Obama's speech on June 25 2013 at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.as the best 'by any president ever'. But does it provide leadership for the world? Not until he walks the talk. Here is that Monumental speech. (more…)...

(E)mission (Im)Possible…With(out) UN Platform.

November 18, 2013July 3, 2018 by Rajendra ShendeNo Comments

18 November 2013- Super-typhoon Haiyan, after devastating the city in Central Philippines, entered northern Vietnam. At the same time negotiators and country delegates entered Warsaw in Central Poland for nineteenth annual global meeting of United Nations on Climate Change-in UN jargon the meeting is called Conference of Parties (COP) to United Nations Framework on Climate Change (UNFCCCC)-that started on 11the November. Powerful tornado passed by in Mid-West in USA, killing people and making thousands homeless. At the same time the Ministers from all over the globe entered the National Stadium of Warsaw today for the second week of negotiations. They probably are having similar feeling of being ‘ lost’, as felt by the people in Philippines and Mid-West. While I am boarding the plane to Warsaw from Paris, I feel that I will be entering into organized chaos for a week. New Protocol-Alternative to Kyoto The delegates have long unfinished agenda in front of them...

Game Changer Gas, Naturally

October 11, 2013July 3, 2018 by Rajendra ShendeNo Comments

This is definitely poetic, for want of better narrative. Finally, Mother-Earth has come to rescue the humanity from the climate-cliff. (more…)...

The day IPCC delivers report-TERRE delivers a message

September 26, 2013July 3, 2018 by Rajendra ShendeNo Comments

On the day IPCC delivers Fifth Assessment Report on Science of Climate change in Stockholm, TERRE Policy Centre is pleased to deliver special issue of its NewLeTERRE on the subject where the Scientific Assessment of Ozone layer that started generation back made the world take successful action. Ozone Day-2013 Special newsLeTERRE from TERRE Policy Centre ...

India Reclaiming Global Leadership on Climate Change

September 23, 2013July 3, 2018 by Rajendra ShendeNo Comments

A miniscule spot of light that I see at the end of two decades-long tunnel of climate negotiations. Amidst the crisis filled dark world –Syria, Finance, Terror, Quantitative Easing, loss of biodiversity, water, food , fossil fuels and so on (more…)...