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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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...
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...
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...
Relation between coronavirus and global warming: Climate crisis changes disease pandemics
Climate change, habitat loss, antimicrobial resistance, and other factors are increasing the chances of global outbreak of novel...
Bushfires in Australia: Lessons India can learn from catastrophe down-under
Many parts of India share the same ecosystem and conditions that have set Australia ablaze. We need to learn lessons to avoid similar...
COP 25: Failure of talks shows countries willing to sacrifice future of planet
The failure of COP25 talks shows that to make a few billion dollars from the carbon market, countries are willing to sacrifice the...
Why US and China need to decarbonise their economies to ensure limit in global temperature
Under Donald Trump, energy-related CO2 emissions of the country have grown in 2018, at a rate that is the highest since 2010, and is...
Deforestation, desertification and climate solutions
A decade later, the carbon market has collapsed and the developed countries’ funding commitments for REDD+ have also been much lower than...
Heatwaves to become more intense, declare it a natural disaster
Bihar alone is not suffering because of searing temperatures. Over the past month, parts of Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Jharkhand,...
Junk the term climate change, replace it with one that recognises impending catastrophe
Scotland has already declared a climate emergency and is setting targets to reduce greenhouse gases (GHGs) emissions to net-zero by...
UNFCCC@25: Little to show, need new platforms and ideas to combat climate change
UNFCCC doesn’t have the tools to drive global collective action to combat climate change; we need new platforms and ideas to drive...
Explained: How the rulebook agreed at Katowice further dilutes the Paris Agreement
Countries are now on their own to mitigate, adapt as well as pay for the costs of climate impacts, but this cannot keep the rise below...
Explained: Why Paris Agreement can’t secure the world from climate change
These words were spoken nearly 100 years ago by the then US president Woodrow Wilson to describe his vision of a new world order after...
Saving the earth from disastrous climate change needs a Plan B. Here is what that could be
The world cannot afford warming of 2°C. To have a fighting chance to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, the goal must be firmly...
Can the thermal power sector be trusted again?
In the heydays of ‘India Shining’ in 2003, the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) had experimented with an alternate model to...
The Paris Agreement and what is wrong with the current framework
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) completed 25 years of its adoption in 2017
Climate change: India pulled off a coup at Kigali; here’s how
It achieved most of its goals with the legally-binding HFC phase-down agreement