An Overwhelming Experience: First Day at the COP14 (1st Dec’04)
1st Dec, I took the tram number 9 to get to the venue at 8:45 am. The very idea of my first United Nations conference as a youth delegate made me nervous. Just outside the venue I was greeted by the Youth Welcome Banner, “Join us in saving our future” plus the word ‘welcome’ in [...]
Clean development or cool development?
A few days back, I had the opportunity to visit a large cement factory in Andhra Pradesh for a stakeholders meeting. The cement factory was in beginning stages of installing a heat recovery power project of 9 MW capacity, and was soliciting CDM financing for the coal and CO2 emissions offset because of the heat [...]