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Program Unveiled for Green Energy Summit 2009
Must Attend Event for Solar, Wind, Biomass, GreenFuels, Green IT, Green Builings, Energy Efficiency and Sustainability

December 15, 2008, Bangalore: From March 4-6, world leaders in the renewable, green, clean technology and energy efficiency sectors will gather in Bangalore for Green Energy Summit 2009. The summit is a highly efficient forum for varied stakeholders from solar, wind, biomass, IT, transport, construction, aviation, nanotechnology and biotechnology to bring together the business and science of the most important and relevant Green Energy and Clean technologies ( http://www.greenenergysummit.com ).

Green Energy Summit has two objectives, amidst a vast array of highly complex issues. First, to bring to a single, public platform - stakeholders and decision-makers from policy, finance, manufacturing and trade. Second, to help catalyze solutions, initiatives and opportunities, so that Green Business, and therefore the necessary change we seek so desperately, can prosper.

"While the business opportunities in the future are enormous, we understand the need for businesses today to gain a foothold so that economically viable change can be more logical, active and urgent. To facilitate this, we will be bringing together those who are creating, propagating and establishing the systems and standards that are needed, so there can be a firm stimulus for action that goes far beyond the rhetoric, with practicable initiatives being addressed," says Dilip Thomas Steering Committee Member/Program Chair & CEO of Saltmarch Media, the organizers of Green Energy Summit ( http://www.greenenergysummit.com/ )

"Green Energy Summit is unique in that it endeavours to identify practical steps that will be of interest to decision makers in govt, business, industry and civil society in order to move the agenda forward with speed and urgency," adds Dr. J Gururaja, Former Sr. Advisor to United Nations. Among the participants expected to explore a sustainable future at GES are the sector’s leading financiers, entrepreneurs, corporations, scientists, policy-makers, city planners and the buyers and sellers.

The first announcement of the complete program has been published from the summit website ( http://greenenergysummit.com/programOverview.html ). Featured speakers include the finest group of 'faculty' ever assembled on this subject:

-"Vision for Green Energy" -- Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, Former President of India
-"Climate Change and Green Energy"-- Dr. R K Pachauri, IPCC
-"New Policy Initiatives for a Green Energy Future" -- Vilas Rao Muttemwar, Minister, MNRE, GoI
-"Greening India's Power Sector" -- Dr. Jairam Ramesh, MoS - Power & Commerce
-"Solar Photovoltatics: Global Perspectives" -- Dr. Hermann Scheer, Member of Parliament, Germany
-"Conflict/Integration between Energy Security and Climate Change Policies" -- H.E. Corrado Clini, Ministry for the Environment Land and Sea, Italy
-"Green Energy, Global Economy and the Planet" -- Dr. Christopher Flavin, Worldwatch Institute
-"The Global Energy Assessment for 2009" -- Prof. Thomas B. Johansson, IIIEE, Lund University
-"Financing Challenges and Opportunities for Green Energy Development" -- Michael T. Eckhart, ACORE
-"Learning from the European Target Figures for 2010" -- Dr. Wolfgang Palz, WCRE
-"Impact of Policy Initiatives and the Roadmap for Green Energy Development" -- Dr. Mohamed T. El-Ashry, REN21
-"Fostering the China-India Collaboration on Green Energy" -- Policy Makers and Industries from China
-"Global Energy Future - New Perspectives" -- Dr. Yogi Goswami, Former President, International Solar Energy Society
-"Partnership Strategies for Promoting Green Energy and Energy Efficiency" -- Dr. Marianne Osterkorn, REEEP
-"Regulators’ Perspectives on Encouraging Energy Efficiency and Demand Management" -- Pramod Deo, CERC
-"Status Quo and Roadmap for Green Energy Investments in Emerging Markets" -- Dr. H. Jeffrey Leonard, GEF
-"PPP in the future financing of Green Energy and Climate Change Projects" -- Dr. Jose Achache, GEO

Besides the plenaries, the power panels, industry-focussed sessions and workshops will cover topics including policy & framework, finance & strategy, CDM, China- Middle East-collaboration, solar, wind, fuels & transportation, green IT, energy efficiency, green buildings, small hydro, cogeneration, green buildings & architecture, environment. There is also a conclave of bankers, VCs, PE investors and aid organizations and a conclave of Chief Secretaries, Energy Secretaries and administrators to drive and debate policy and implementation.

Apart from the main conference, there will be a dedicated Exhibition area to showcase the work of vendors from Solar, Wind, Biomass, Green Fuels, Green IT, Green Buildings and Materials, Equipment manufacturers, the government, nodal agencies and the industry. Plans are also afoot to fund five practical and result-oriented projects in the areas of primary healthcare, SPV for drinking water, BIPV, “IT Lights-Off Day� and other applications; the projects will be announced at the Green Energy Awards ceremony on 6 March 2009.

Dr. Arcot Ramachandran, former UN Under Secretary General and chairperson of the summit, says, "We are also planning for the rural voice to be heard, for children to become green conscious, for achievers to be felicitated and, for participants to be taken to real-life implementations of renewable energy, so they can see and feel the promise of renewable and clean technology."

Needless to say, organisations participating in the summit have the opportunity to reinforce its commitment to sustainable development and promote its innovative green technologies and strategies with International and Indian companies, renewable energy intelligentsia, R&D and academic institutions, as well as the government, on several of the key initiatives their companies are driving.

Register now to secure your place at this premier networking and deal-making forum, in Bangalore from 4-6 March 2009. For sponsorship opportunities and delegate registration contact Poonam Sharma at +91 99020 77327 or +91 80 4005 1000, or e-mail info@greenenergysummit.com .

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I take back my earlier comments in this thread: I do not know enough about Gandhi to make any sort of judgement as of yet.

er Harish, you should settle this by showing us where manto abused you or your family members...when he "started it" as you claim. Otherwise you should just slug it out without trying to paw and claw at the moral high ground.
Instead of wasting time quoting irrevelant stuff about manto from other people, just show us the money quote.

Here is what people really think:

Post by shobig_sifar on Aug 24, 2007 1:31:33 am

give credit where it is due. I and Manto have had clashes of sorts and hardly ever had an agreement over anything, as is the case with him and Atif payee, but I can vouch he is not the sort of guy to imbue family members into his personal cyber-scuffles. Harish, on the other hand has been consistantly and appallingly abusing Aisha, despite his potential to have a clean and intellectual discourse.

Yaar... may God help you and help those you are quoting.

#353 Posted Yasser

You will keep hoping and praying and wishing that some how some anonymous nick will "expose" my "hypocrisy".

I don't have to pray. It is already happening. And the surprise is, your own compatriots are even more vitriolic than any Indian can ever be. Some of the threads exposing your utter hypocrisy left even me (who's quite familiar with your attention-seeking antics) shocked.

God save people who have the misfortune of being associated with a disgusting person like you.

And even god cannot save those unfortunate enough to be associated with a caricature such as you.

Harish mian,

You will keep hoping and praying and wishing that some how some anonymous nick will "expose" my "hypocrisy".

God save people who have the misfortune of being associated with a disgusting person like you.

#350 by Ranjit

For god's sake, you are two educated professionals with liberal values. Why does it have to descend to such virulent personal hatred and vitriol, especially attacking mothers and sisters?

Yaar Ranjit, I fully agree with you, but please check the 50-odd posts and see who started the whole mother thing. Yasser mian is frustrated because his attempts to pin me down have boomeranged on him, and so he probably thinks baiting me by abusing my mother will rile me up sufficiently to respond even more vulgarly than him, which could then be used as a case against me. All it has proved is Yasser mian's dubious credentials. Please also visit UP and check how other Chowkies are exposing his shameless hypocrisy.

Ranjit,

This is a very good question and should be addressed exclusively to this fellow Harish mian who really isn't worth my time given his disgusting habits.

This disgusting fellow with "liberal values" abused the hell out of my family because he doesn't find my views palatable. He says I abused him first but beyond trying to show him that such abuse indicates a deep seated insecurity and possibly a broken home ... I have not responded in kind.

Now he keeps saying I abused him but you can view the evidence in 326 and 301-305. If he feels I abused him or Aisha did... he should produce evidence. But he has none... so he is acting the only way he knows how to...

I wonder if some people are so devoid of humanity as to completely abuse others for having points of view contrary to each other. You and I have had many disagreements... how many time have we started abusing each other's mothers and wives?

Harish and Manto,

Guys, I dont mean to interrupt your mutual lovefest but this is really juvenile and disgusting, especially on a public forum. For god's sake, you are two educated professionals with liberal values. Why does it have to descend to such virulent personal hatred and vitriol, especially attacking mothers and sisters? Why cant you treat each other with at least some decorum? If you cannot behave rationally, why not ignore each other? If educated people cant have a decent conversation, what hope is there in the subcontinent?

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And in the future no this: just because you call your mother a bitch and a whore in love and affection doesn't mean every woman in the world is going to accept this kind of abuse.

Harish mian,

The said Ilog is still there and is in response to your ilogs. You can check the dates. You are abusive liar and you've been proved as one. Now keep going in circles.

Untill and unless you can produce our "abuse" against you, you don't have a point.

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You are right. I was merely trying to point out the hypocrisy in his reprimand to folio, when he himself is a 100 times more abusive without provocation.

In retrospect it was a collossal waste of time induling a fool like him.