There is a need for a ‘‘drastic and immediate’‘ change in energy usage patterns for tackling global warming and climate change, says Chetan Singh Solanki, the IIT Bombay professor known as the ‘Solar Man of India’.
‘’But are we taking drastic and immediate action? The reality is that CO2 emissions are increasing,’‘ Prof. Solanki said on Friday, speaking on ‘Climate Change, Energy Swaraj and I’ at the CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (NIIST) where the Energy Swaraj Yatra led by him was given a reception by the CSIR thematic group on energy conversion and related devices.
Currently on unpaid leave from IIT Bombay, Prof. Solanki is the brand ambassador of solar energy for Government of Madhya Pradesh and is founder of the Energy Swaraj Foundation. He has undertaken a 11-year-long (2020-2030) Energy Swaraj Yatra on a ‘solar bus’.
