at the UN claimate acttion summit on sept.23

at the UN climate acttion summit on sept.23

was followed by donald trump's mockingtweet;''she seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a brigjt and wonderful future .byt we all know that the 16 year old swedish school girl activist is right.the warnings are crowding in,fast and ominous.the devastation caused by the station ary hurricane dorian in the bahamas in early september wa shocking,but so is every bit of news outside of geopolitics and terrorism.bird censuses in different countries speak of billions fewer feathered friends.

marine life is fast depleting.glaciar melt is accelerating as the cryosphere the frozen parts of the earth shrinks day by visible day,as in the latest news .on tuesday the world meteorlogical organization said rising sea levels ice loss and extreme weather caused 2015 2019 to be the warmest five years on record.on wednesday the intergovermental panel on climate change IPCC said warming oceans and rising sea levels as well as ice erosion affrct 1.35 billion people in high altitudes and low lying regions.urgent action will only make the consequences of global warming more mangeable,but not fend them off.

''what is at stake is the health of ecosystems ,wildlif ,and importantly the world we leavs for our children,'' said ko barret vice chair of the IPCC.modi told the UN climate summit that india would spend 50 doller billion over the next few years on the jal jeevan mission water conservation and rainwater harvesting.he has also pledged piped watwr in every rural househild by 2024.currently only 18% of rural households have water on tap.

this is a cart before the horse challenge how can you ensure universal water supply without water?india consumers more groundwater then the united states and chaina combined.i wrote recently about our vanishing groundwater and also the shocking evidence of the speed at which himalayan glaciers are vanishing which will lead to flooded rivers and more landslides.in policymaking the longest distance is between how it is and what you want it to be.this is true of indias efforts to keep its promise to limit its contribution gas emissions by 33-35%by 2030.in his brief claimate summit speech was need not greed.we belive that an ounce of preaching he said adding that india was committed to expanding its nonfossil fuel renewable energy its nonfossil fuel renewable energy capacity to 175 gigawatts by 2022 and beyond that to 450 GW.

he dod not say by when,but industry experts say it is doable by 2030, if the gowermen attacks it on a war footing.take solar panels.last year the modi goverment aburuptlyimposed a 25% safeguard duty on imports of solar panels from chaina and malesia;theis is to be diluted to 15%by merch 2020.the duty has severely hit \solar power providers.then the new andhra pradesh goverment headed by Y.S jaganmohan reddy abruptly reneged on solar and wind contracts signed by his predecessor asking for a halving of tariffs to rs 2.44 per unit making first mover project unviable.the AP high court has set aside the swingeing cuts but ruled that the state regulator will have the final world.tariff cuts should only go hand in hand with concessional loans for wind farms and solar parks and the savins passed on to consumers.

the trouble is vaibhav chaturvedi of the council on energy,envirment and water CEEW told me 60% of a solar power company's costs now go towards servicing debt.thre is much symbolisn.modi spear headed the international solar alliance in 2015,and last week inaugurated the gandhi solar park on the rooftop of the UN member country will generate 50MW of electricity.india has promised to generate 40% of its electricity from renewable source by 2030.will this happen? renewable energy capacity stood at the end of june.the truth is that in absolute terms our carbon emissions will not reduce because of our growing economy and population

.the goverment's policies are bafflingly countradictory.the day after modi's UN speech,coal minister pralhad joshi announced that india plans to sharply increes coal production from the current 730 million tonners to 1,15 billion tonnes by 2023.last month the goverment announced it would welcome 100% foreign direct investment in coal mining.joshi said despite the push for renewable energy the country will require base loadcapacity of coal based generation for stability.coal currently accounts for 75% of electricity generation.the goverment is opening new mines expanding the capacity of exisiting mines and creating new evacuation infrastructure  to ramp up domestic output joshi said.nevertheless a recent paper by chaturvedi and felloe researchers at the CEEW is cautiously optimistic .india urgently needs a robust non partisan strategic framework for climate friendly develoment;the mission shiuld be headed by a powerful figure possibly evan a deputy [rime minister said leena srivastava,depty director  general designate of science at the austria based international instiute for applied systems analysis .