Indian target may help negotiations The Indian target to curb emissions growth is a positive step that will help the climate negotiations, says Rajendra K. Pachauri, Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change. The move increases pressure on developed countries, says climate expert. Marianne Bom 04/12/2009 15:50 The Indian offer to reduce its carbon intensity “will certainly help the negotiations process and is something India should be doing for external and, more importantly, for internal reasons,” says Rajendra K. Pachauri, Chairman of the scientific Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change, IPCC. Environmental organisations also regard India’s recent offer as an important step, according to Bloomberg.

Reducing green house gas emissions is one thing and checking rivers from drying , ponds , lakes , dams , going without water, flora and fauna being lost each year, more and more land turning saline and alkaline globally, loss of plant and animal species and degraded and denuded forests, depleting biomass as cooking fuel due to excessive use need a proper planning. Merely replacing fossil fuel with biofuel will not solve the problem which has to be tackled in totality. The Ramgarh lake has dried in Jaipur, the water pond of Amber is drying, water supply to jaipur is coming from a dam 150 km away. What will happen to Jaipur once this dam goes dry. Hills of Ramgarh reserve forests going barren so are the hills of Udaipur .

India follows China's footsteps, to announce emission cuts today Buzz Up Share Twitter Delicious Myspace Digg Stumble Upon Facebook Thu, Dec 3 11:55 AM New Delhi, Dec 3 (ANI): Following in China's footsteps, India has also decided to slow down the growth of greenhouse gas emissions. Last week, China had claimed that it would cut carbon emissions up to 45 percent by 2020. India has decided to cut its carbon intensity by 24 percent by 2020. Japan to urge China for bigger CO2 cut target EU leaders want details on China emissions plan India is at present under immense pressure to pronounce the details of how it would cut its carbon intensity. New Delhi's position will strengthen at the Copenhagen summit if it is successful in its aim.

Combustion is a commercial technology with traditional fuels such as wood residues and MSW (incineration) and several successful applications can be identified worldwide. However, in order to increase the range of applications and thus the market for combustion technologies, new applications have to be developed for the more complex feedstocks such as straw, grasses, and mixtures of several different fuels. Grate systems are the preferred type of combustor due to their reliability and industrial experience especially for small to medium size applications (0.5 - 5 MWe).

Energy is a crucial and vital ingredient for the modern development of economic activities of our society. Biofuel is a locally-available source of energy that not only can provide energy to meet the increased energy demand derived from the economic development of developing countries, but also contributes to climate change mitigation and rural development. Forests and trees as well as agriculture activities provide 14% of the total world primary energy used. For developing countries, wood energy is of considerably greater importance than in industrialized countries -about 15% of their energy needs come from woody biofuel (FAO, WEIS, 2000). However industrialized countries depend much more heavily on fossil fuels with only 2% of their energy demand coming from wood.