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Bangladesh's central bank has launched a 2 billion taka ($29 million) refinance scheme for renewable energy in an effort to help ease power and gas crisis and reduce pollution.

MASEEH RAHMAN

India has decided to push ahead with an ambitious plan to generate clean electricity through the power of the sun - and, after a meeting chaired by the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, it wants rich nations to pay the bill.

A government plan for greenhouse gas reduction by 2020 would push down Japan's economic growth by 0.6 percentage points and raise unemployment by 0.2 percentage points in 2020, a government panel report showed on Wednesday.

A new report from the Electric Power Research Institute noted that in order to meet climate goals, the U.S. power industry must implement a full portfolio of technologies.

While we agree that we'll have to pull out all the stops in the race to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, we must not trade one problem for another.

Sanjay Jog

Mumbai: The Maharashtra government under its new policy has proposed a slew of sops such as waiver in the electricity duty, subsidy for evacuation arrangement, 100% expenditure for construction of approach roads to attract investment for renewable projects. By promoting renewable projects, the new policy aims to address challenges posed by the climate change.

BV Mahalakshmi, Rajiv Tikoo

A DRAFT document on India

To be built on a public-private partnership basis
The plant will be located at Ghogha Dairy complex

India will make energy efficiency ratings a must for electric appliances, including airconditioners and refrigerators, from January, stepping up domestic efforts to fight climate change, officials said.

South Korea, Asia's fourth largest economy, has pledged to set one of three targets for carbon emissions by 2020, voluntarily joining Kyoto signatories in moving toward a firm commitment to roll back climate change.