GOOD NEWS, BUT BAD NEWS AS WELL, ABOUT CLIMATE DAMAGE AND OBLIGATIONS

Reproduced from The Ecologist

World Bank to focus on 'all forms of renewable energy'

The World Bank will invest heavily in clean energy and only fund coal projects in "circumstances of extreme need"because climate change will undermine efforts to eliminate extreme poverty, says its president Jim Yong Kim. [http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_round_up/2649075/world_bank_to_focus_on_all_forms_of_renewable_energy.html]

The Ecologist & Link TV investigate India's growing addiction to coal.

India is rivaling China -- in its plans to consume coal. India is aggressively expanding construction of coal fired power plants to meet growing energy needs. Some 455 new plants now are in the pipeline. With air pollution already a leading health concern, medical experts say this expansion can have dire health consequences. 

Emissions from coal power plants were linked to 80,000-150,000 premature deaths in India between 2011 and 2012 alone and to a wide range of diseases from cancers, to respiratory and cardiovascular disorders. Singrauli -- an industrial hub in north central India -- embodies the tragic human toll that a largely unregulated coal industry can extract.Sarah Stirk of the Ecologist magazine and Ecologist Film Unit files this original investigative report for Earth Focus. (SEE BELOW FOR FILM).

[http://www.theecologist.org/tv_and_radio/ecologist_film_unit/2402660/coughing_up_coal.html] and

watch the Ecologist Film Unit: http://youtu.be/V0YjtRcd61U

As the Climate Convention's COP20 kicks off in Lima today, FOEI reveals the developed countries cunning plan to evade their legal obligations by hiving them off into unofficial, non-binding documents. But the world can stand up to the 'three card tricksters' - forcing them to cut their emissions, and pay the $100s of billions they owe for the climate damage they have caused.

Developed countries want to curb climate change without bearing the burdens and costs. To do this they need to change the climate regime and shift the burdens and costs to developing countries.

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