Trade Rules Trump Climate Action: U.S. Blocks India’s Ambitious Solar Plans

[EXPERIMENT]

The expansion of domestic renewable energy capacity is a matter of national sovereignty, who cares about what America says?

WTO can be worked around.

Correct !!!!

Wishful thinking is not reality.

What you are talking about is Indirect subsidies. WTO has rules regarding that too. Under WTO rules Indirect Subsidies are not allowed and they are take into account too.

Subsidies are measured even when it involves indirect transfer of funds. via grants, loans, equity infusion, guarantees, tax holidays, service provided, goods supplied, use of special funding mechanism etc.

So any such action will only be temporary since the WTO will rule against it when the US companies take India to court again.

You are giving too much weight to WTO, sovereign nations should not cower to such vested bodies.

 

[raktaka]

You are giving too much weight to WTO, sovereign nations should not cower to such vested bodies.

Sovereign nations needs to honour their commitments unless they are powerful enough to get away with it.

 

[Sam.]

Sovereign nations needs to honour their commitments unless they are powerful enough to get away with it.

It's more about priorities than power but i understand your point if you wish to swim you will get wet.

 

[topgun047]

What part of Indirect subsidies did you not understand ?

Funding projects using a special Fund is recognized as indirect subsidy. Providing Tax holiday is a subsidy and Providing cheap land to some firms wile denying them to others is discrimination.

All of these measures will result in Indian having to pay a Substantial Fine to the complainant.

USA should pay fine for giving indirect subsidy to Lockheed Martin in form of giving F-16s to Pakistan via CSF

 

[raktaka]

USA should pay fine for giving indirect subsidy to Lockheed Martin in form of giving F-16s to Pakistan via CSF

True, but who will do it ? Who will bell the cat ?

 

[Sam.]

True, but who will do it ? Who will bell the cat ?

 

[mirage]

WTO ruling against Paris pact: Greenpeace backs India - The Times of India

 

[knight11]

I am never convinced or attracted toward the Solar energy as the major power source, rather why on the earth we are not trying to explore the Geo-thermal Energy. Their are may experts who are saying this for many decades that we have the whole himalayan range where the probability of earth quake is very high. To lower that risk, we need to release the pressure developed in the pockets below the earth surface plates, which could be done by utilizing geo thermal energy, which will ensure, clean, unlimited, and abundant source of energy.

 

[EXPERIMENT]

Sovereign nations needs to honour their commitments unless they are powerful enough to get away with it.

Anything is only as powerful as it perceives

 

[raktaka]

Anything is only as powerful as it perceives

.... unless one gets shot in the face.