Cement, Energy and Environment July-Sep 2002

... • • • Within fifteen years from 1999 achieve I00 per cent flyash utilisation. Central and state government age nc ies, state electricity boards and thermal power plants to provide facilities and access for flyash users. Manufacture of ash-based products or use of tlyash in const ruction activities in accordance with standards and specifications laid down by concerned agencies. Currently, 90 million tonnes of fl yash is being generated annually in India. With a planned increase in coal-based power plant s in coming years, this figure is expected to reach 200 million by 2012. Alf·eady 65,000 acres of land is used as ash ponds - land where fly ash is dumped by thermal power plants. A fly ash utilisation estimate says that only about 12 mill ion tones or 13 per cen t of the flya sh generated is being utilised in India. The potential use, in comparison, is quite high. Though the situation is far better than in the 1980s when the utii isarion was as low as three percent. The power plants, the flyash contractors and users do not take on the problem in a cohesive fashion. J\sh Uti li sation Division of NTPC claims that the target set under the notification will be achieved, but has no plans to share. The Renu Power plant at Renusagar, Uttar Pradesh, privately owned by the Aditya Birla group, with dai ly ash production of aro und 5,000 tonnes and NTPC, Shaktinagar with about 8.000-9,000 tonnes per day production a lso claim th at the 20-percent target will be ach ieved by September 2002. But like their counterparts, cannot explain how they will do it. Courte.1y. Down to Earth, July 15, 2002, Pp23-2.J, Fax: 91-11-6085879. E-mail: cse(alcseindia. org IJieh.· '''ll'll'.cseindia. org GREATER AWARENESS NEEDED ON CLIMATE CHANGE: BAALU The Hindu, I-I July 2002 The COP-8 Eighth Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framewo rk Convention on Climate Change will be held in New Delhi later this year. Stating this at a seminar, the Union Environment and Forests Minister, Mr. T. R. Baalu, sa id the meet, to be held during 23 October - I November 2002, would be attended by environment ministers, top officials, and non-governmental organisations from the world over. ' It wil l be an important event in carrying fo rward the Convention process,' he said. Mr. Baalu was inaugurating a seminar on Climate change and industry: Issues and opportunities, organised by the FICCI, the TERI, and the Union Mini stry of Env ironment and Forests. Pointi ng out that th e Convention, adopted in 1992, was a global effort to stabili ze GHG (greenhouse gas) concentrations in the atomosphere at safer levels, Mr. Baalu said, industry had a very important stake in climate change as about one-ha lfofthe globalGHG emissions were contributed by it. Mr. C. Dasgupta, Distinguished Fellow at TERI and former Indian envoy to China, said climate change posed cha llengcs and opp01tunities for the Indian industry. The country could make a contribution by impl emen ting projects and measures that moderated carbon emissions and coiild a lso .be independently j ust ified in ·terms of th eir econom ic or env ironmental benefits. The Union Environment and Forests Secretary, Mr. P. Y. Jayak ri s hnan. said techno logy upgradation , re novation, and mod erni za tion were the criti cal elements to bring down GHG emissions and the Ind ian industry could ac h ieve them through excha nge of information. Investment cou ld be attracted for appropriate technologies. Hinting that there was still scope for re-entry of the US into the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change, Mr. Yijai Sharma, former Joint Secretary in the Union Ministry. said the Berlin Mandate and Marrakesh Accord too provided space for this possibility. Courtesy: Teri Neu'Sll'ire, 1-15 July 2002, P30. Fax: 91 11 -1682J.!.I E-mail: outreach@teri.res.in IVeb:. ww1v. teriin. org KYOTO PROTOCOL AND EMISSION TRADING: DOES TilE US MAKE A DIFFERENCE'? [207} Ciorbu U, Lanza A, and Paulf F. 200 I Climate Change Modelling and Po!iC)' 90.2001: / 9 pp. The paper foc usses on em ission trading and different sce narios a re presented that correspond to participants in the market as we ll as the domestic no-trade solution. For each scenario th e market price as we ll as total abatement costs for each country is indicated. While the Kyoto Protoco l cons iders six different GHGs. this paper is limited to the most relevant, i.e. C0 2 • It is worth pointing out that not all the countries that signed the Kyoto Protocol are considered in this paper, principally due to a lack of data. However, less than 3% of Annexe I emiss ions is not included in this study. Cu rrent lite rat ure focusses on the economic impIications for large aggregation of countries. The European Union, in particular, is considered as a single area , even thou gh stru ctura l differences persist wi thin the region. However, it is worth underlining that aggregation of countries is largely driven by different mode lling approac hes. For example Computab le General Equilibrium Models, that require a large quantity of information , generally do not