New Delhi, July 26 (IANS) Nuclear and solar power are the only two sources that can ensure energy security for India in the coming decades and also minimise greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, Shyam Saran, the prime minister’s special envoy on climate change, said here Saturday. Speaking on ‘Climate Change: Will India’s Growth Story Confront a New Constraint?’, Saran made a strong case for pushing solar and nuclear energy as the best way to reduce India’s dependence on imported oil, gas and coal as well as for reducing its GHG emissions that lead to global warming. Saran described at length how industrialised countries were responsible for almost all the carbon dioxide added to the Earth’s atmosphere since the start of the Industrial Age and how they were continuing to do so despite signing the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Carbon dioxide is the main GHG. More >>>
