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Joydeep Gupta
Joydeep Gupta was moved to specialise on writing about environment and development during his coverage of the December 1984 gas leak in Bhopal, India, and has been at it ever since. He has covered the aftermath of the gas leak for years, the 20th century’s worst drought in India in the 1980s and sustainable development issues. In 1992, Joydeep was selected to cover the Rio Earth Summit by the Swedish International Development Agency. In 1993, he got a scholarship to study for a Masters degree in Environmental Economics and Environmental Management in the University of York (UK). After completion of the Masters, he worked as a consultant to NGOs and worked on developing India’s National Biodiversity Action Plan before returning to full-time journalism and starting to concentrate on climate change. He covered last year’s climate change summit in Bali, during which he wrote 63 stories for his news agency, the Indo-Asian News Service, including a number of special and exclusive stories. Joydeep has earlier worked in a daily newspaper, The Statesman, and two Sunday newspapers - Sunday Observer and Sunday Mail. He has been the general secretary of the Forum of Environmental Journalists in India, a member of the Asian Forum of Environmental Journalists. He has edited books on biodiversity conservation and co-authored books on pollution control.
Posts by Joydeep Gupta
The Last Day And Little Progress
No commentsThe Dec 1-12 climate change summit is entering its final day without any sign of substantial progress, but climate change effects have progressed dramatically worldwide, adding to hunger and illnesses worldwide, say international experts. The 2008 drought in western Australia that contributed in a big way to the food crisis earlier this year is the first major impact of climate change, says Martin Parry, professor at the Imperial College in London and former co-chair of a working group at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
»Brothers In Arms
No commentsThe climate change summit may have ended in failure, but it showed rare unity of purpose between India and China, which took on the industrialised world together at the closing moments of the climate summit here. The Indian position also received support from Pakistan. Knowing that developing countries had failed to get the industrialised world to part with even one extra per cent of their profits from carbon trade, India started the note of dissent at the final session of the Dec 1-12 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
»Worse To Come
No commentsAn extra billion people will face water shortage, cereal production in developing countries will drop and coastal regions will face more damage from floods and storms because of delay in combating climate change, says a leading expert.
»Climate summit finale saddest moment: Indian delegate
No commentsThe climate summit ended in the early hours of Saturday with the collapse of a key deal to pay developing countries to cope with global warming. The senior-most member of the Indian government delegation said: “This is one of the saddest moments I have witnessed” after attending 12 such summits.
»Before It Is Too Late
No commentsVery soon, the impact of climate change will exceed our capacities to adapt to them, Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has warned.
The head of IPCC, which has done a great deal to bring the effects of climate change – lowered farm output, more frequent and more severe droughts, floods and storms and a rise in sea levels – to the forefront of world attention said: “The impacts of climate change are now so evident. If we don’t take immediate action they will get far worse.”And remember, poorest countries and the poorest communities in these countries are the most vulnerable to these effects.
