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The South Asia Region Sustainable Development Department
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The Bank-Fund India Club
cordially invite you to a discussion with Sunita Narain on
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| | Combating Climate Change: Should India Bother? |
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| | India faces the perfect storm: GDP growth rates |
| (Embedded | are finally getting to where policy makers would |
| image moved | want them to be, but India now also ranks as one |
| to file: | of the biggest developing country emitters of the |
| pic30838.jp | Greenhouse gases that contribute to changing the |
| g) | planet's climate, even though its role in the |
| | historical build-up of such gases has not been |
| | significant. At the same time, the Indian |
| | sub-continent will expect to feel some of the more |
| | devastating impacts of this changing climate in |
| | this century: premature glacial melt, |
| | desertification, droughts and floods. What are the |
| | options? Should India bother about combating |
| | climate change? |
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Thursday, November 15, 2007
11:00 am to 12:30 pm
MC2-800
1818 H Street, NW Washington D.C, 20433
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Opening Remarks
Karin Kemper
Sector Manager, SASDN
Speaker
Sunita Narain
Director of the Centre for Science and Environment in India
Ms. Sunita Narain heads the Center for Science and Environment, a
leading Indian NGO, which, among other activities, publishes the
State of India's Environment Reports and the Down to Earth magazine.
She is an international environmental activist who has taken strong
positions on many difficult issues - from local democracy to women's
rights to climate change to water. She is currently a member of the
Indian Prime Minister's Advisory Council on Climate Change, and was
a recipient of the prestigious Stockholm Water Prize in 2005.
Comments by
Richard Damania
Senior Environmental Economist, South Asia Sustainable Development
Department
Neeraj Prasad
Vice President, Bank Fund India Club, and Lead Env. Specialist, East
Asia Sustainable Development Department
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