Bangalore: At a time when the whole world is clamoring for new
solutions to prevent global warming, India has announced that it will
launch a dedicated satellite in 2012 to monitor greenhouse gas and
aerosol emissions which are considered to be major contributors to
global warming.
Delivering the 'Satish Dhawan memorial lecture' at the Jawaharlal
Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Indian Union Minister for
Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh said, "In addition to a dedicated
satellite to check greenhouse gas and aerosol emissions, we will have a
dedicated forestry satellite in 2013 for real-time monitoring of both
deforestation and afforestation across the country."
Forging a close relationship with the state-run Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO), the ministry is co-financing the setting up of the
National Institute of Climate and Environment Studies in Bangalore.
'We are also working with ISRO's space application centre in
Ahemdabad in modelling and monitoring the health of the Himalayan
glaciers as the space agency is an integral part of our climate science
and climate change negotiations team,' Ramesh said in his lecture 'The
Two Cultures Revisited: Some Reflections on The Environment Development
Debate in India'.
Noting that there was no system of green accounting in the country to
convert Gross Domestic Product (GDP) into Green Domestic Product and
reflect the use of precious depleting natural resources, Ramesh stressed
upon the need to develop a robust system to report both the domestic
products.
"My ministry is making efforts to have a system of Green National
Accounting by 2015 because if we can report both the GDPs, we will have a
better picture of the trade-offs involved in the process of economic
growth," Ramesh pointed out.
Pleading to consider environmental issues as public health issues,
the minister said the debate between environment and development would
subside if environment control was seen as a public health enhancing
intervention.
"We are in the process of setting up a National Environmental
Protection Authority as a permanent body to appraise projects and
monitor compliance as part of environmental governance," he added.
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