Energy and Environment One billion people living in developed countries consume 50% of the worlds energy supply

whereas one billion of the worlds poor people use only 4%. Energy is important enabler of economic development and its production and use is increasing several folds every year. This brings challenge for people in terms of energy availability and impact on climate change. Global temperature is reported increasing every decade. India is the fifth biggest emitter of CO2 emission and 45% of population of India does not have access to electricity. In several developing countries, biomass accounts for over 90% of household energy use. Combustion of biomass in typical stoves results in indoor air pollution that causes 1.3 million deaths per year. It is now well established that the global climate is changing due to human activities, in particular related to burning of fossil fuels and deforestation. These activities are tightly linked to socioeconomic and political models that have transferred advanced economies to their current state of development. As a consequence, both observations and climate models show large-scale changes in major weather patterns, increased frequency of extreme weather events, and in the state of the global climate. These changes pose new pressures to ecosystems worldwide and lead to progressive and crucial challenges for socio-economic, health and political structures and trans-national relations, as well as to new relations between humans and their environment. In particular, challenges are expected in the crossing between global development challenges, poverty and vulnerability, food availability and security, health, availability of water and climate change. These challenges will lead to increased migration, increased refugee flow, and humanitarian crises affecting the mobility of large numbers of people with immediate and direct consequences for advanced economies. The capacities to adapt and mitigate such climate change related changes but developed countries have an undeniable responsibility to better understand and predict the above mentioned crossing issues. Such a responsibility includes not only the facing of serious moral dilemmas related to the fact that human induced climate change is primarily driven by economic activity and resource use that had historically benefited them, but a responsibility to propose pro-active measures driven by cross-disciplinary research and thus the production of new knowledge. In particular, new knowledge is needed to potentially mitigate negative consequences on people in developing parts of the word as well as vulnerable and disadvantaged groups within advanced societies. The renewable energy sources such as hydro, biomass, solar, wind etc. could meet energy requirements. Government allotted lands to the poor for their economic upliftment but in absence of technical knowhow and other inputs, they failed to drive any benefit. Access to greater quality and quantity of energy services an essential in making transition from subsistence livelihoods to increased productivity and improved living for poor.
Author Dr Hishmi Jamil Husain having 12 years national and international experience in the field of Environment Management and Sustainable Development. He did BSc. (Hon) Geology, from Aligarh Muslim University, (India). Finished MSc. Forestry Economics & Management from Forest Research Institute, Dehradun, (India). Completed Post Graduate Diploma in Universalization of Socio-

economic Securities for the Poor in from Institute of Social Studies, (The Hague, The Netherlands), Executive Master in e Governance from Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne, Lausanne, (Switzerland) and Ph.D in Lithology and Soil Characteristics in Relation to Forest Vegetation of Garhwal Himalaya from Forest Research Institute, Dehradun, (India). For different trainings and study he has visited countries USA, Canada, Switzerland, Malaysia, Australia, The Netherlands, Belgium and France etc. Got several fellowships and recognitions some are Swiss Agency for Development & Cooperation (SDC) Fellowship, UNDP Fellowship, World Bank Fellowship. Nominated as Reviewer by Elsevier Science Publishing Group, the Netherlands, Author of Encyclopedia Earth, National Council for Science and the Environment, Washington DC, U.S.A. , Member in the Board of Scientific Journal-Amer-Eurasian Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences, International Digital Organization for Scientific Information, McGill University Macdonald Campus, Montreal, Canada, Member of Research Board of Advisors of the American Biographical Institute, Raleigh U.S.A. Life member of Indian National Science Congress, Member of National Intellectual Property Organization, Member of the Global Association of online Foresters, Member of the Indian Association of Soil and Water Conservationist. Presently working as Environment Superintendent with Rio Tinto. (Email : hishmi.husain@gmail.com, Cell +91-9755593238)