Why green projects in India are hot favourite of international NGOs?
Sifting through the pile of letters from organisations announcing news conferences, my attention was drawn to one that claimed the group would be setting up a major initiative in India "to help bypass polluting and inefficient technologies and create more green jobs and a green economy'. The letter was from Sierra Club, a us -based ngo. What, in effect, it proposed to do was help India leapfrog high-carbon emitting technologies and yet be on the road to development adopting technologies that draw from renewable energy sources. A noble intention, but easier said than done. Intrigued as to what prompted an organization to make such preposterous claims, I decided to go to the press conference anyway, since climate change was my beat.
Without much ado, Carl Pope, executive director of Sierra Club, made the important announcement: a Green Energy and Green Livelihoods Award of us $100,000 to recognize outstanding environmental success in India by grassroots level civil society organisations