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China, India, Brazil Push U.S. for Deeper Greenhouse Gas Cuts

Dec. 7 (Bloomberg) — China, India, Brazil and South Africa said the U.S. must pledge deeper cuts in greenhouse gas emissions to help make progress in United Nations climate talks, sharpening divisions between rich and poor countries on how to combat global warming. The four developing nations at the talks in Cancun, Mexico, also called on industrialized economies to provide more aid for countries seeking to clean up their energy industries, adding to demands that the U.S. and European Union said may wreck the meeting. “There is an agreement to…

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Solar power to turn cheap as firms bet on India

India could well turn out to be the cheapest solar power producer as developers clamour with each other to execute projects, even willing to sell power at rates sharply lower than prevailing tariffs. “We had invited the proposals for 650 MW project but received an enormous response of 5,000 MW from project developers, manufacturers, and foreign companies” said Gauri Singh, joint secretary, ministry of renewable energy (MNRE). Buoyed by this response the government had asked the bidders to offer discount on tariffs, lower than those listed by the regulator —…

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India takes steps to protect wheat from global warming

NEW DELHI: Although no major impact has been observed on wheat production due to global warming in India in the recent past, the government has taken preventive steps to safeguard the principal crop from rising temperature. Data show there has been increasing trend since 2007-8 in wheat production, which alone contributes over 71 per cent of total foodgrain production of the country. Wheat production increased from 78.51 million tonnes in 2007-8 to 80.71 million tonnes in 2009-10 (as per 4th advance estimates,2010), Minister of State for Agriculture K V Thomas…

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