Canada’s Wildfires are a Warning to India
Who’d have guessed that a 49.6°C temperature would be recorded somewhere in a normally frigid Canada? Now wildfires, caused by the...
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Single-use-plastics bans have failed
Exactly three years back, single-use plastics (SUPs) took centre stage in India when PM Modi, on June 5, 2018, announced that the country...
Who’s afraid of net zero target?
A storm is brewing on the climate diplomacy front that India needs to navigate carefully to avoid becoming a fall guy. The issue at hand...
Become climate champions: India’s top family conglomerates must play a leadership role
The private sector in India has traditionally avoided engagement on climate issues publicly. But this seems to be changing. On November...
Clean up Indian Railways
Railways fascinate me. Professionally, I advocate for a massive expansion of rail networks to address the air pollution and climate...
India’s Arctic policy must push Western countries to give up double standards
‘We need to act for the Amazon and act for our planet,’ said Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau when fires ravaged the Amazon...
Energy transition and Just Transition must go hand in hand
The writing is on the wall. A few days back, Coal India Limited (CIL), the world’s biggest coal producer and India’s largest CO2 emitter,...
Paris agreement isn’t enough: Climate crisis is too important to be left to governments alone.
The world is not only suffering because of Covid and economic distress. It’s also reeling due to climate disasters. The year 2020 is...
How to control stubble burning: Combine Harvester is the problem as well as the solution
This is a straightforward article to discuss the real issues concerning stubble burning, including its contribution to pollution in...
We have been barking up the wrong tree on air pollution
On its 46th foundation day, the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) released two reports that should force us to re-examine our...
Rebuilding a sustainable economy post COVID-19
The global economy is in recession, and it is predicted to be more destructive than the Great Depression of 1929 and the Global Financial...
Environmental hot potato: Current EIA process is defunct.
The Draft Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) notification 2020 has become a hot potato for the ministry of environment, forest & climate...
Over regulation will not solve plastic waste problems
An oft-repeated saying in India is that our environmental laws are good, but their implementation is poor. I have always disagreed with...
India is too poor to afford coal as a primary source of energy in the near future
As part of the stimulus package to revive the economy, the Union government has announced a slew of measures to boost production and...
Breaking the lockdown chakravyuh
Set realistic health goals and use latest scientific data to reopen the country, save lives and the economy One of the most endearing...
The clean environment we’re enjoying currently will only be short term, without fundamental changes
Pandemics and environment have a close relation. Throughout history epidemics have caused large scale deaths, reducing human influence on...
India must change its testing strategy
In a war, you don’t only use your best weapons, you use everything in your arsenal. This has to be the maxim in our fight against...
COVID-19: Let’s prepare for the long haul
Five major modelling studies reveal that suppression strategy might require multiple lockdowns until a vaccine is available. Governments...
Zoonotic diseases are rife this century
A crisis does not emerge out of thin air; it has underlying causes. And most of the underlying causes, if not all, are in front of our...
The anatomy of a pandemic: Silent infections could erode containment efforts’ efficacy
Silent infections could erode containment efforts’ efficacy; developing anti-virals and vaccine must be part of the near-term vision....