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Planning to get married in Goa? www.weddingsetcgoa.com Making your 'dream wedding' possible ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Himal Southasian <editor...@himalmag.com> Date: Oct 7, 2009 11:30 AM Subject: Everything you need to know about Climate Change To: Venantius Pinto <venantius.pi...@gmail.com> Dear Venantius, In case you haven't received it yet, here is our newsletter with links to the actual articles online. Feel free to send it out on any listservs or email networks you may be on. Thank you, Editors, Himal Southasian, GPO Box 24393 Kathmandu, Nepal Tel: +977-1-5547279 www.himalmag.com [image: Himal Southasian] <http://www.himalmag.com/> *OCTOBER-NOVEMBER ISSUE: CLIMATE ANXIETY - Notes to the policy Gods** * *Adam J West* *Bilash Rai*Undoubtedly, dire predictions are no longer droll. When over 10,000 heads of state, scientists, policy pushers and *climate-change wallahs *gather in Copenhagen this December (in the process generating more than 16,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide at a meet that will cost upwards of USD 65 million), it will be crucial to separate the hot air from the rhetoric. Helping the potential victims of climate change adapt to the *disastrous transitions* in livelihoods must be a priority. This includes the technology transfer from the West to the South. But prioritising adaptation by ‘buying off’ some Southern countries would be wrong, for we would then be *‘adapting’ forever*, even as climate change accelerates in the absence of effective mitigation efforts. The historical culpability of the West, going back to the Industrial Revolution’s coal-burning, naturally requires moral accountability. At the same time, the massive middle class of the South seeking to emulate the consumerist North must not be allowed to have its way. There must be a commitment to mitigate, by all of the West and the rich of the South, including Southasia. Indeed, *no adaptation without mitigation! **COVER SECTION: CONTROL THE TEMPERATURE!* *'Charting change <http://www.himalmag.com/Charting-change_nw3565.html>' by Kunda Dixit* *From the Himalaya to Male, there are clear signs that climate change is real. * *'Frontline nation <http://www.himalmag.com/Frontline-nation_nw3567.html>' * *Interview with President Mohamed Nasheed. * *'The need for a Southasian perspective<http://www.himalmag.com/The-need-for-a-Southasian-perspective_nw3568.html>' by Shyam Saran* *We tend not to comprehend how ecologically inter-connected we are in the region. * *'Beyond sun and dung<http://www.himalmag.com/Beyond-sun-and-dung_nw3571.html>' * *Interview with Rajendra Pachauri* * 'Glaciers take the heat<http://www.himalmag.com/Glaciers-take-the-heat_nw3573.html>' by Smriti Mallapaty* *The receding glaciers of the Himalaya offer a critical case study of the region’s approach to climate change.* *'Hard science <http://www.himalmag.com/Hard-science_nw3574.html>' * *Interview with **remote sensing specialist **Pradeep Kumar Mool.* '*The coming crisis <http://www.himalmag.com/The-coming-crisis_nw3575.html>' by Afsan Chowdhury* *From Bangladesh to India … and then the rest?* *'Weaker and worse <http://www.himalmag.com/Weaker-and-worse_nw3576.html>' by David Sassoon* *Understanding the limits of America’s international climate posture.* * **'This frog won’t leap<http://www.himalmag.com/This-frog-won-t-leap_nw3577.html>' by Vijay Prashad* *China and India must collaborate to force the West to pay for past excesses rather than plead for a ‘humanistic’ approach. * * 'Uncertainty, unclear risks and Compromised commitments<http://www.himalmag.com/Uncertainty-unclear-risks-and-compromised-commitments_nw3578.html>' by Jayanta Bandyopadhyay and N Sundararaman * *The post-Kyoto Protocol global politics that has emerged in relation to mitigation makes the future of reductions in GHGs uncertain. * *'Southasian front <http://www.himalmag.com/Southasian-front_nw3580.html>' by Rishikesh R Bhandary* *A common regional platform is necessary, but India might not be the ideal leader. * *'Leading the way <http://www.himalmag.com/Leading-the-way_nw3581.html>' by Jessica Ayers and Saleemul Huq* *Bangladesh is the unquestioned leader on formulating adaptation policies to deal with the ramifications of climate change. * *'India’s ‘stage three’ fantasy<http://www.himalmag.com/India-s-stage-three-fantasy_nw3582.html>' by Rahul Goswami* *It does not look like India’s nuclear industry is up to the task of providing **‘clean energy’ to fuel India’s energy demand**.* *'Equalising burden-sharing<http://www.himalmag.com/Equalising-burden-sharing_nw3583.html>' by Mukul Sanwal* *While the impact of climate change is global, the response is piecemeal with an increasing burden on the poor in developing countries.* * 'Save or splurge? <http://www.himalmag.com/Save-or-splurge_nw3584.html>' by Huo Weiya** China’s social environment challenges the implementation of the concept of * *a ‘low-carbon’ lifestyle**. * *'Elite extravagance<http://www.himalmag.com/Elite-extravagance_nw3585.html>' by Nagraj Adve* *The international climate discussion will go nowhere until class and capitalism are understood as central.* *'The need for old wine<http://www.himalmag.com/The-need-for-old-wine_nw3586.html>' by Samir Nazareth* *It turns out, indigenous practices and innovations meant to sow equity and sustanibility will be useful in the battle against climate change. * *'Scepticism chic <http://www.himalmag.com/Scepticism-chic_nw3587.html>' by Darryl D’Monte* *Journalists must introspect about their own shortcomings when it comes to climate change.* *'No doomsday <http://www.himalmag.com/No-doomsday_nw3588.html>' by Patrick Hodder and Brian Martin* *Framing global warming as an emergency is not effective in mobilising governments or citizens. It may even have the opposite effect. * *'No more a cycle of the season<http://www.himalmag.com/No-more-a-cycle-of-the-season_nw3589.html>' by Pushpesh Pant* *Do the curly oaks of Uttarkhand still store chilled water?* *'The gift <http://www.himalmag.com/The-Gift_nw3590.html>' by Rabi Thapa* *Climate change! They could take their climate change and stuff it, all the way to Kyoto, Bali and Copenhagen. * *'Razors, the mig and climate change<http://www.himalmag.com/Razors-the-mig-and-climate-change_nw3591.html>' by Dilip D’Souza* *Climate change. It’s like that. Get with it, dude.* *'Barsha elegy <http://www.himalmag.com/Barsha-elegy_nw3592.html>' by Kaiser Haq* *It was Hegel, if I remember rightly, who said that one understands the meaning of something only when it is a thing of the past. * * 'A people in translation<http://www.himalmag.com/A-people-in-translation_nw3593.html>' by Fariha Sarawat* *Apnar bari kothai? * *'The muezzin’s island<http://www.himalmag.com/The-muezzin-s-island_nw3594.html>' by Simon Shareef* *Alas, thought the muezzin dismayed, nature’s laws have all but failed. * If you have received this email in error or want to unsubscribe, Click on the following link: http://www.himalmag.com/unsubscribe_id1580_code85079148cd0c7c58bedd3f9f3711e705.html * *
