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On the Bumpy Road to Paris

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As the day draws closer, so the expectations are rising from every concerned quarter of the planet. The time is now to build on the schematics that have been drawn all through the year in drafts and popular opinions; the actual moment to set the platform for the most assured common progress of  transitioning from the traditional fossil fuel based economies to the more suitable renewable energy  fuelled future. The climate negotiations will soon be resumed and this time around, it is globally assumed to take off on a different momentum of all seriousness and possibly birth a definitive way forward. Reasons are quite reflective in the happenings that marked the year as a promising one- the drawn statement from the G7 meeting earlier in the year that projected boldly on the 100% transition to renewable energy and the introduction of the intended nationally determined contribution (INDC) as expected from every country of the world with respect to individual efforts to eas...

“When words fail, what then holds the world?”

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Photo credit: Encyclical word cloud In the wake of 2015, every pointer was in the direction of a productive year of substantial and unequivocal leap of meaningful development in the wise of global action at tackling the seemingly burdens of concern for the whole of humanity-Sustainable development and climate change. While the habitual records of global imbalanced portrayal of concern has for one represented the accumulating factor of delays and of course the possible reprimanding results of such delays, every hopeful heart that had never tarried at raising a common voice of change envisioned and anticipated a possible event changing year. A year of action it’s been tagged as and from all possible scenario, the potential of the year still depicts a level of certainty in the tune of change of tides. Although the year is already halved and the odds still counts on the side of would it really be the year of final breakthrough? The recently released Encyclicals by the Pope added...