Japanese firms are coming to India to set up bio-fuel plants and others will collaborate with Indian firms in the area of sustainable energy development, said Kazuo Minagawa, Japan Counsel General in Chennai on Friday.
Delivering the inaugural address at a seminar on ‘Global warming and climate management' organised by the Indo-Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IJCCI), he said that Allied Carbon Solutions, a bio-fuel company, launched a contract farming programme for jatropha cultivation near Madurai. Besides, the company will produce about 10 tonnes of crude jatropha oil daily. Allied Carbon plans to export the bio-fuel to the U.S. and Japan.
More firms are willing to come to India. In his welcome address, IJCCI president N. Krishnaswami said that Japan had been a role model in Asia for ‘clean environment' and ‘clean energy development' and India has to learn from Japan's experiences on these fronts.
The chamber plans to work in tandem with like-minded organisations in Japan and India. It also plans to work in co-operation with representatives of various countries in Chennai such as the U.S., Singapore, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and other ASEAN countries to pool their expertise and experiences in tackling global warming and climate management.
B.S. Raghavan, former Policy Advisor to the UN (FAO), said “these problems call for a total systemic approach, without which we cannot address it at all. A vigorous campaign has to be carried out among the vital stakeholders to create awareness.”
Mr. Raghavan said that people have to become the manipulators of change. This could be done through people-to-people networking, alliance, or coalition to find out the remedial measures.
S. Madhavan, CEO of Green Quotient Systems called upon the various stakeholders to calculate the carbon emitted by various lifestyle gadgets used in daily life.
