‘The Carbon Merchants’ explores the very pertinent question of India’s most basic predicament with regards to development – on the one hand, unplanned urbanisation and industrialisation have wrecked irremediable damage on the environment, on the other the challenge of poverty alleviation forecloses the possibility of a reversal of the developmental trajectory. The film traces low carbon economy initiatives across the length and breadth of the country which are constantly involved in the creation of clean technologies. Some of these initiatives are endeavours of individual entrepreneurs while there are others which have been initiated by corporations. There is also the singular example of the state government of Kerala distributing 15 million CFL lamps to the people in the state. The film urges one to think creatively in terms of emulating some of these models nationally.
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