Friday, December 11, 2009

Can India Cut Emission Intensity Without Carbon Sequestration?







1) Mandatory fuel efficiency standards for vehicles by December 2011
2) Mandatory green building code
3) Amendments to energy conservation Act
4) Progress report on forest cover









  1. Thanks for this. It was my sense that 20-25percent was pretty much a business-as-usual approach with a few tweaks. Definitely not something to get worked up about.

    China's cuts (40-45 percent) seem more significant. From what I can tell, they were planning on doing it anyway, but that doesn't mean the cuts aren't big. The WSJ has something here that suggests as much:

    Still, one problem with China's response is that is allows the West to continue to move production to China; thus emissions fall in the West because Western consumption (and ours too) is being made possible by Chinese production. Emissions are thus "embedded" in Chinese made products, but the consuming countries don't have to count them.

    And of course we need reductions in output overall, right? And the US is not doing much at all in that regard.

  2. yes, moving production from one region to another may favor balancing the books for western nations but the atmosphere does not care for that.

    not emitting much anywhere is the only way out.

    thanks for the WSJ link.

  3. What exactly is a green building code?

  4. buildings designed and constructed with materials to conserve energy..