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Monday, April 13, 2009

Technology Route map for climate change required

The technology route map for climate change is urgently required. To reduce green house gasses today we do not need any more calculation of carbon credits, trading of energy derivatives, the Cap and Share ecbu, the carbon tarrifs and the GHG penalties theory or other esoteric empirical calculations. We need real action. We need to concentrate on a small number of viable solutions and pursue them relentlessly to achieve economies of scale. Only if ecology is blended with economy and cost-effective solutions provided will it be acceptable to the masses.

We need to increase rainforest plantation as well as replace fossil fuel with solar and wind energy solutions. These are the 3 possible easy to implement, low budget solutions that can implemented worldwide without too much rift amongst developing & the developed nations. However the correct thought leadership and financing plan is required in implementation and a mutually profitable partnership methodology has to be devised, that politicians can sell to their constituencies back home without too much sweat.
Developed countries have technology and finance while the emerging markets have a growing demand for energy products and cheap manpower to reduce the implementation cost of these solutions. The developed countries already have redundant capacities in the energy sector and no real reason to invest in new green technologies unless they can profitably export these. However since these solutions are more expensive than coal based energy today, the emerging economies hesitate to move with these solutions as they consume more resources.
So the climate change leadership has actually to harness the technology & financial prowess of the developed world and match it with the low cost manpower and high energy demand areas of the emerging economies and provide a high volume profitable solution for implementation. This can easily be done by providing low cost long term IMF or WB credit for the incremental difference between a fossil fuel plant and a solar energy unit. Not rocket science by any terms.

At the Blog 'Economy to Ecology' we believe that it is high time to set up a technology route map. For this a group of consulting firms in the energy sector must be given the assignment, those who have set up major energy sector units and are qualified by the World Bank for energy projects.
We could be wrong. Tell us if we are & why? We encourage diverse opinion even if it is from commercially interested groups opposed to our thinking.

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