President Obama and India's Prime Minister Modi are best of friends - aren't they? So how come the US took India to the WTO's trade court - and just won a resounding victory? And why isn't India challenging the US's own discriminatory solar subsidies? It's because of the money, writes Charles Pierson. And poor India has no choice but to play by Washington's rules.
… Crushed: the US and the WTO demolish India's solar energy ambitions Charles Pierson | 5th September 2015 News India USA Energy Solar Finance Trade … President Obama and India's Prime Minister Modi are best of …
India's renewable power capacity is set to reach 170GW by 2022, write Areeba Hamid & Oliver Tickell - reducing power shortages and bringing electricity to off-grid of rural communities for the first time. But it may also have an unintended consequence - cutting off investment in India's troubled coal sector as prospects for future profitability evaporate..
… Renewables to transform India's energy landscape in seven years Areeba … Oliver Tickell | 20th February 2015 News India Energy Coal Fossil Fuels Renewables Solar Finance China solar-power-india-cut.jpg India's renewable power capacity …
India celebrates its Independence Day today, writes Colin Todhunter. But the highly visible system of British colonial dominance has been replaced by a new imperial hegemony: the invisible, systemic rule of transnational capital, enforced by global institutions like the World Bank, while US-based global agribusiness corporations have stepped into the boots of the former East India Company.
… On Independence Day, India's new rulers are the World Bank, IMF, … Colin Todhunter | 15th August 2016 News India Farming Seeds GMOs Corporations Finance yoke-india-cut.jpg India celebrates its …
India's decision to release GMO cotton seeds that incorporate genes for Bt toxins into indigenous 'desi' varieties threatens disaster for the country's small and organic cotton farmers, writes Vandana Shiva. The danger is that the GMO characteristics will spread rapidly into the gene pool, contaminating India's unique heritage of cotton seed diversity.
… Shiva | 9th September 2015 News GMOs Farming India weeding-cotton-s-india-cut.jpg India's decision to release GMO cotton seeds …
Ahead of the release of the World Bank's revised energy strategy, the Ecologist speaks to sustainable development advocate Srinivas Krishnaswamy about why despite huge gigawatt power projects, 45 per cent of India's households still lack electricity
… Why India doesn't need World Bank energy funding … Climate Change & Energy World Bank Coal India Sustainable Development Biogas Solar … huge gigawatt power projects, 45 per cent of India's households still lack electricity Does …
India's economy is hindered by the lack of sustainable and reliable electricity, writes Michael Jacob. But the new government has a plan to bring 24/7 power to every citizen, based on grid renewal, subsidy cuts, and a big rollout of ever-cheaper solar power generation.
… Solar power to the fore in India's energy revolution Michael Jacob | 12th August 2014 News India Energy Renewables Solar Economy dhursar-solar-power-india-cut.jpg India's economy is hindered by …
India's food system, essentially clean just a generation ago, has been comprehensively contaminated with sugar, bad fats, synthetic additives, GMOs and pesticides under the country's neoliberal 'great leap forwards', writes Colin Todhunter. The result? a surge in obesity, diabetes and cancer incidence, but no let-up in the under-nutrition of those too poor to join in the over-consumption.
… India: obesity, malnutrition and the … | 4th April 2016 Comment Food Farming India Trade GMOs Health Pesticides Toxics mcdonalds-india-cut.jpg India's food system, essentially …
Global oilseed, agribusiness and biotech corporations are engaged in a long term attack on India's local cooking oil producers, writes Colin Todhunter. In just 20 years they have reduced India from self-sufficiency in cooking oil to importing half its needs. Now the government's unlawful attempts to impose GM mustard seed threaten to wipe out a crop at the root of Indian food and farming traditions.
… Beware the GMO Trojan horse! Indian food and farming are under attack Colin Todhunter | 11th February 2016 News India Food Farming Culture GMOs Corporations Regulation Law The Land india-mustard-cut.jpg Global oilseed, …
Seventeen or more secret applications have been made to India's GMO regulators for trials and release of GM crops including rice, wheat, chickpeas, brinjal and mustard, write Colin Todhunter & Oliver Tickell. In a violation of the law regulators have released no information about the applications, raising fears that India's first GMOs will be released with no health, safety or environmental testing.
… Rice, wheat, mustard ... India drives forward first GMO crops under … Oliver Tickell | 3rd November 2015 News India GMOs Farming Food india-mustard-field-cut.jpg Seventeen or more …
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has found India's huge solar initiative 'guilty' of breaking trade rules, write Dipti Bhatnagar & Sam Cossar-Gilbert, because it gives domestic manufacturers a small 10% quota for the supply of panels, leaving up to 90% for foreign competitors. It's a warning for perils of the entire WTO system, and of even harsher trade rules like those in TPP, TTIP and CETA.
… World Trade Organisation smashes India's solar panels industry Dipti Bhatnagar … | 28th February 2016 News Energy Solar India Economics WTO Trade Agreement solar panels india.jpg The World Trade Organisation (WTO) …
India made no promises to cut its CO2 emissions from coal power stations, writes Nivedita Khandekar, and refused to reveal its ambitions for the Paris climate talks - but Obama promised US support for its plans to roll out 100GW of solar power.
… 100GW solar support in US-India climate talks, but no emissions cuts … Nivedita Khandekar | 27th January 2015 News India USA Climate Change Renewables Solar Nuclear modi-obama-cut.jpg India made no promises to cut its CO2 …
Three very different sustainable energy projects from India are among the finalists in this year's Ashden Awards, writes Chhavi Sharma - all of them inspiring and showing this vast country the way to a clean, secure, affordable energy future for all.
… India rising to sustainable energy challenge … Chhavi Sharma | 19th May 2014 Comment India Energy Renewables Corporations Solar … different sustainable energy projects from India are among the finalists in this year's …
A KPMG study shows that the cost of solar power in India, revealed by public auctions, is barely half a cent above that of cheap local coal , writes Chris Goodall, with generators bids falling well below 5p (UK) / 7¢ (US) per kWh. The idea put about at COP21 that India and other poor but sunny countries need coal to develop their economies is fast running out of steam.
… India: solar head to head with coal, says … | 3rd January 2015 Comment Energy Solar India Economics Coal solar-india-cut.jpg A KPMG study shows that the cost …
Vandana Shiva is more than just a leading scientist, author and campaigner on green issues and anti-globalisation, writes Scott London. She is also among the most prominent of Mahatma Ghandi's intellectual heirs. In this interview, she discusses how this led her to be an outspoken voice on such crucial environmental issues as seed legacy, biopiracy and economic injustice.
… 2016 Comment Seeds Politics Farming GMOs India vandana shiva.jpg Vandana Shiva is more … of his life's work was devoted to renewing India's vitality and regenerating its culture … self-sufficiency. He felt that the soul of India was contained in the village community …
Two firms in the wind power sector illustrate how companies in the developing world can take advantage of increasing access to technological know-how, while staying within the bounds of intellectual property law, says Joanna Lewis.
… Energy leapfrogging in China and India Joanna Lewis | 28th March 2008 News Leapfrogging Energy India China Development Wind Solar Energy … property law, says Joanna Lewis. China and India’s energy development pathways are a …
Following allegations of defying India's Biological Diversity Act (BDA), Monsanto faces a lawsuit from the Indian government, reports Rosie Spinks
… How India squared up to Monsanto’s 'biopiracy' … Food And Farming Monsanto GMOs Biopiracy India bt_brinjal_monsanto.jpg Following allegations of defying India's Biological Diversity Act (BDA), Monsanto faces a lawsuit from the Indian government, reports Rosie Spinks What …
Heathcote Williams remembers India's great campaigner Professor Nanjunda's whose direct actions against Monsanto, KFC, McDonalds, Coca-Cola and the WTO inspired a nation and created an unstoppable movement of 10 million ...
… News GMOs Food Farming Corporations Trade India nanjunda-2-cut.jpg Heathcote Williams remembers India's great campaigner Professor Nanjunda's … unstoppable movement of 10 million ... "What India needs today is the Gandhian formula for …
India's farmers are the targets of structural violence aimed at uprooting indigenous agriculture and replacing it with an intensive corporate model based on GMOs and agrochemicals, writes Colin Todhunter. But as Monsanto's GM cotton succumbs to insect infestations despite repeated pesticide applications, agroecological farming is an increasingly attractive option for cultivators.
… pride, Monsanto's fall: playing God with the Indian farmer Colin Todhunter | 19th February 2016 News Farming India GMOs Toxics Corporations Ecology cotton-farmers-india-cut.jpg India's farmers are the targets …
India's Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee stands accused of Contempt of Court for evading Supreme Court orders to carry out full biosafety tests on GM crops and publish its data, writes Colin Todhunter. The immediate issue is a herbicide tolerant GM mustard now approved for large scale trials, while earlier findings remain under an impenetrable veil of official secrecy.
… India's top GMO regulator's 'Contempt of … Todhunter | 15th December 2015 News GMOs Law India Farming Biodiversity Regulation mustard2-cut.jpg India's Genetic Engineering Appraisal …
A new study finds that Indian farmers in rain-fed areas are being driven to suicide from the increased cost of growing Bt GMO cotton varieties that confer no benefits to them, writes Eva Sirinathsinghji. The extra expenses arise from buying new seeds each year, along with increased chemical inputs, while suffering inadequate access to agronomic information.
… GM cotton really is helping to drive Indian farmers to suicide Dr Eva … | 11th August 2015 News GMOs Farming India cotton-farmer-india-cut.jpg A new study finds that Indian …
Plans to introduce a controversial GM variety of brinjal (aubergine / eggplant) in Bangladesh are opposed by 100 civil society organisations around the world. As Mae Wan Ho reports, the issue is arousing powerful passions ...
… | 3rd January 2014 News GMOs Gm Food Farming India Bangladesh Philippines … company tried to commercialize Bt Brinjal in India several years ago and failed. No … and that only came to light when the Indian Supreme Court ordered the company to …
Vandana Shiva exposes the link between the use of genetically modified cotton seeds and the tragic suicide of 284,694 farmers in India over 17 years.
… | 19th November 2013 Comment GMOs Farming India Monsanto navdanya-vandana-farm.png … and the tragic suicide of 284,694 farmers in India over 17 years. The debate over … (TEC) appointed by the Supreme Court of India and made up of India's most eminent and …
In her new book The Vandana Shiva Reader, the celebrated campaigner and scientist deplores the way in which the Green Revolution forced India's poorest farmers off their land, writes Colin Tudge. Now she fears even worse outcomes in Africa where a GMO-fuelled farming revolution is under way.
… the way in which the Green Revolution forced India's poorest farmers off their land, writes … of wheat, first in Mexico and then in India, is seen as a triumph of western-style … events unfolding from the midst of the Indian farming communities that are most …
A breakdown of how major countries compare on their success in attracting investment in wind, solar and other forms of renewable energy in the past year
… of the biggest growth in investment was in India and Latin America. Below is a breakdown … procurement and clean energy tax incentives. IndiaIndia is now ranked in 10th place among the …