Reproduced from The Ecologist
World Bank to focus on 'all forms of renewable energy'
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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