Ramesh snubbed, 3 panels for green eco

The government has constituted three committees to define green economy, which could be new international environmental paradigm in the next one year.

Updated on: Jul 3, 2011, 01:21:51 IST

Hindustan Times | By Chetan Chauhan, New Delhi

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The government has constituted three committees to define green economy, which could be new international environmental paradigm in the next one year. This comes, despite environment minister Jairam Ramesh publicly announcing that an independent expert Partha Dasgupta of Cambridge University will do the job.

The United Nations has defined green economy as low carbon, resource efficient and socially inclusive, and wants an international agreement by June 2012, when head of the states are expected to meet in Brazil.

The agreement on how to achieve green economy, for which a negotiating text is expected by end of this year, can re-define world economic growth pathway. The rich countries want carbon based approach where the developing world is seeking right to develop approach.

In this backdrop, Ramesh had announced that Dasgupta will head a committee to recommend green accounting norms for India and they will be applicable from 2015.

But, the government wanted deeper deliberations and constituted three inter-ministerial committees to deliberate on impact of proposed green economy in different sectors.

The first group deals with climate change, urban development and waste management. The second with agriculture, water, rural development and bio-diversity. The third is on impact of green economy norms in finance, taxation, trade, labour and technology transfer. "We are looking at an institutional framework to study impact of green economy as defined by UN," a government official said.

For this, the government has commissioned three independent studies. One of the studies to be done by the Madras School of Economics is on green accounting, the subject area of Dasgupta committee. Other studies are being done by The Energy and Resources Institute and MS Swaminathan Foundation.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Chetan Chauhan
Chetan Chauhan is the National Affairs Editor looking into all aspects of news and features from across India. A Chevening scholar with over three decades of experience in reporting and news management, Chetan has extensively covered all important aspects of the social sector, political economy, environment and climate change nationally and internationally. He did a journalism course at the Reuters Institute of Journalism in Oxford and Digital Media training at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He started as a reporter with The Statesman in 1996 and joined the Hindustan Times in 2000 in the metro bureau covering environment, crime and Delhi politics. He covered hot local news, from the Jessica Lal murder case to the rebellion of Delhi Congress MLAs against then Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, to the replacement of toxic vehicle fuel with cleaner compressed natural gas (CNG) in the national capital. Some of his stories on air pollution became part of the Supreme Court’s landmark MC Mehta versus Government of India case in the National Capital Region (NCR), forcing the government to take corrective measures. As part of the national political bureau since 2004, he covered important central sectors such as environment, education, social justice, labour, rural development, water resources, renewable energy, agriculture, broadcasting and the Planning Commission for more than a decade producing several exclusive and investigative breaking stories. His specialisation is the environment, having covered at least a dozen United Nations global conferences on climate change, biodiversity and wildlife including climate summits in Paris, Copenhagen and Bali. He also covered India’s two five-year plans ---11th and 12th and reported on drafting and execution of right based laws such as Right to Education, Right to Information and rural job guarantee law, MG-NREGA, now being introduced in new format as VG-RAM-G Act. He has in-depth knowledge of social sector issues. He was one of the first to report on tigers vanishing from Sariska and Panna wildlife reserves in 2004 and 2008, respectively, leading to the setting up of the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) and the introduction of stringent penal provisions for poaching. He has written extensively on the rising human-animal conflict in India and the degradation of India’s biodiversity hotspots because of mining and other activities. Since 2004, Chetan has covered Parliament comprehensively and participated in training on the nuanced coverage of Parliament proceedings. He has travelled extensively across India to cover national and provincial elections since 1998, especially in the Hindi heartland states, considered India’s road to power. He writes a regular column for Hindustan Times, Ecostani, on important national politics, economy, Himalayan ecology and environmental issues. His other responsibilities include providing inputs for edits and edit page articles for the publication, apart from managing news flow from across India.Read More

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