Assamnetters-particularly his /TERI's/GONGO fan club therein -remember what I
rated him 2 months back.
Gogoi Govt is Ga Ga on TERI/Pachauri.
Allotted vast lands free in Guawahati-taken him as Minister-Ranked Adviser with
all perks.
Poor Assam!
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Sun, 28 Oct 2007 10:38:58 -0700Subject: [WaterWatch] GONGO; Environmentalists
Critical of Nobel Prize for R K Pachauri headed IPCC
GONGO; Environmentalists Critical of Nobel Prize for R K Pachauri headed IPCC
R.K. Pachauri is world’s “Top Beggar” if you go by this story than savior of
our environment.
As a matter of fact too much money following professional beggars is the
primary cause of poverty and global warming, 90% of the resources for
environment and development went in to the pockets of GONGOS in the past.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3818
TERI was good at organizing international events. Beyond that it had
insignificant capabilities.
I endorse the entire article except that people need large efficient dams for
large dams have negligible storage cost compared to any other method. Capital
cost storage at Bhakra is just INR one or two per cubic meter that may have 100
years life span. Plastic water storage tank cost over INR 5000 per cubic meter
only and may need 5-10 replacements.
Kirit Parikh, member Planning Commission is also running a GONGO called IRAD
from Asian Village Complex.
Ravinder Singh October29, 2007
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Pachauri headed TERI has always been on the wrong side of the civil society
campaigns. It has opposed CNG. It has advocated incinerators, promoted dubious
carbon trade in climate change, drafted industry-centric environment policy,
drafted big dam-centric water policy.
Can an individual or an outfit that has never spoken against Bhopal Gas Disaster
and interlinking of rivers, world's biggest project akin to rewriting of
geography be deemed an environmentalist?
TERI has always had incinerator manufacturers like Thermax and corporate
criminal companies like Vedanta as its sponsors and supporters. India's largest
mining company, Vedanta Resources plc is based in London. It stands accused of
multiple human rights and environmental violations at its operations in India.
TERI and Pachauri are supporters of the UN Global Compact. Pachauri should be
held accountable for according "low priority" to chemical safety by failing to
call for `corporate sentence' linking fines to the turnover or profit of a
company. Implementation of chemical safety measures by fixing corporate
penalties based on investigation and prosecution of manslaughter.
If Pachauri and TERI are indeed sensitive to environmental concerns how come
they did not support the resolution on the UN's Norms on the Responsibilities of
Transnational Corporations (RTC Norms) seeking powers of enforcement for the
norms. Although the resolution for RTC norms is still to be endorsed by the
54-country Human Rights Commission.
These UN norms essentially represent a restatement of existing international
law on human rights, humanitarian law, international labour law, environmental
law,
anti-corruption law, consumer protection, etc. What they essentially say is that
any company that wants to respect the law and be socially responsible would
want to follow the norms.
The mandatory RTC norms were adopted by the UN human rights sub -commission in
the face of the voluntary approach of the UN Global Compact. The RTC norms
adopted by the UN Human Rights sub-commission exposed the glaring loopholes of
the Global Compact that Pachauri, TERI and IPCC supports.
Given below is an indicative list of sponsors of Pachauri's TERI
Multilateral/Bilateral organizations
Asian Development Bank
Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
Department for International Development (DfID)
Deutsche Gesellschaft Fur Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH
European Commission
Health Effects Institute
India-Canada Environment Facility
International Development Research Centre
Japan Bank for International Cooperation
Public Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF)
Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP)
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office, UK
The Royal Government of Bhutan
The Royal Netherlands Embassy
The Royal Norwegian Embassy
U S Agency for International Development
United Nations Development Programme
United Nations Environment Programme
World Bank
Corporates
BP International Limited
PepsiCo Foundation
Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited
CESC Limited
Coca-Cola India Limited
Hero Honda Motors Limited
Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited
Indian Oil Corporation Limited
Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India Limited
National Thermal Power Corporation Ltd.
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited
Tata Tea Limited
Toyota Environmental Activities Grant Program
Toyota Motor Corporation
TVS Group of Industries
Foundations
The Ford Foundation
The John D and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
MISTRA - The Foundation for Strategical Environment Research
The Rockefeller Foundation
V. Kann Rasmussen Foundation
Government of India
Central Electricity Regulatory Commission
Department of Biotechnology
Department of Personnel & Training
Department of Science & Technology
Government of Karnataka
Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi
Government of Sikkim
Gujarat Electricity Regulatory Commission
Gujarat Industries Power Company Limited
Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam Ltd.
Himachal Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission
Indian Council of Agricultural Research
Jharkhand State Electricity Regulatory Commission
Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission
Ministry of Environment and Forests
Ministry of New and Renewable Energy
Ministry of Panchayati Raj
Ministry of Power
Ministry of Railways
Ministry of Rural Development
Ministry of Science and Technology
Orissa Renewable Energy Development Agency
Punjab Forest Department
Uttar Pradesh Forest Department
Media Partners
CNN-IBN
Among others Coca Cola Company, one of the sponsors of TERI and a member of
Global Compact remains guilty of draining precious water resources as well as
polluting the land and water, and one of Coca-Cola's largest bottling plants in
India has been shut down since March 2004 as a result. An international
campaign has led to its removal from over 20 colleges and universities in the
US, UK and Canada and has been dropped from the socially responsible investment
fund of TIAA-CREF, the largest pension fund in the world.
Coca Cola company is only one of the supporters TERI, its other supporters
include companies accused of corporate crimes as well.
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