Climate Change

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Climate change and how it is giving rise to vector-borne diseases

Published on Apr 07, 2023 12:50 pm IST

Climate change(AFP)

Developing resilient renewable energy supply chains

Renewable Energy

Published on Apr 04, 2023 01:31 pm IST

The critical role of financed emissions in India’s path to net-zero

As the world begins the transition to a low-carbon economy, the financial sector will need to get up to speed on a long list of methods, standards and frameworks designed to mitigate and abate climate change.. (Mark Schiefelbein/AP)

Published on Mar 31, 2023 11:04 am IST

Earth Hour: A time to reflect

India gate seen before the Earth Hour in New Delhi, India. (Ravi Choudhary / HT Photo)

Published on Mar 25, 2023 12:48 pm IST

Paving the way for access to clean water and sanitation

Erratic monsoons and decreasing groundwater resources will lead to an increase in the cost of water and inequitable access to it and the lack of water resources can hamper the amount of safe water needed by families for Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH).

Published on Mar 22, 2023 02:09 pm IST

Accelerating climate action with social entrepreneurship

The issue of climate finance has been raised at the Sharm el-Sheikh Climate Change Conference. (AFP)

Published on Jan 14, 2023 01:11 pm IST

Everything that’s wrong with carbon offsets and what can we do about it?

Carbon offsets are a mitigation strategy and do not address the pertinent issue of absolute CO2 emissions reduction, which should be the primary driver for climate.(AP (Representative Image))

Published on Jan 12, 2023 12:28 pm IST

Bring cities to the high table of global climate policies

New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg once famously said, “While nations talk, but too often drag their heels—cities act”.

Published on Dec 12, 2022 05:28 pm IST

Combating the new wave of climate-related trade protectionism

There has been a steady increase in environment-related notifications and measures by World Trade Organization (WTO) member countries.(AP Photo)

Published on Dec 08, 2022 11:46 am IST

Women and girls are key to climate justice

Climate change poses exacerbated risks for India. Women face a disproportionate burden of this threat as they remain socially, politically, and economically marginalised -- the only group more vulnerable are girls.

Published on Oct 08, 2022 03:16 pm IST

Reimagining climate-resilient food systems in a post-pandemic world

The World Health Organization (WHO) has found that every year, nearly 600 million people (7.5% of the global population) fall ill from eating contaminated food and 420,000 die because of it.(Flickr)

Published on Aug 23, 2022 11:19 am IST

The Thar needs restoration; and greening is not the solution

Today, while we are celebrating the 75th Independence of our nation, our desert is greener than it ever was. Yet this greening does not symbolise a healthy functional state of the Thar ecosystem.

Published on Jul 15, 2022 12:36 pm IST

Why open data is key to environmental action

Environmental campaigns are marked by rousing calls for collective, transformative action on a global scale. A lot of organisations and individuals - from state actors and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives to grassroots initiatives - grapple with patchy information about the sector or region that they are involved in.

Published on Jul 01, 2022 04:57 pm IST

Governments and industry must collaborate to protect the environment

The recently held 26th meeting of the Conference of Parties (COP) underlined the urgency to limit the average global temperature rise to below 2 degrees by phasing down the use of fossil fuels, financially supporting the mitigation of climate change in developing countries and achieving net-zero carbon emissions by the year 2050, among others.

Published on Jun 05, 2022 09:49 am IST

Boost collaborations for green transformations

One of the biggest challenges ahead of the policymakers is— bridging the gap and creating a close connection between the challenges of changing climate, cities and its people.(AP)

Published on Jun 05, 2022 09:39 am IST

Tree planting in open ecosystems has few benefits

Here, India promised to bring 26 million hectares of degraded land under restoration efforts by 2030.

Published on Jun 05, 2022 09:10 am IST

Localising green transitions in India

At COP-26 in November 2021, the Government of India announced a five-point plan to tackle climate change, including an ambition to reach net zero emissions by 2070.(Flicker)

Published on Jun 03, 2022 07:08 pm IST

Planet politics in the era of climate crisis

According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in 2021, India is at the topmost hotspot of terrestrial water storage loss (TWS), having lost TWS at a rate of three to four cm each year, the highest loss recorded after Antarctica and Greenland.(AP)

Published on May 24, 2022 03:04 pm IST

The ease of doing sustainability

The problem is relying on virtue signalling to save the planet is counter-productive.

Published on May 10, 2022 02:16 pm IST

Is the apex court backtracking on environmental principles?

The process of EIA has been established under the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 to give effect to the precautionary principle.(HT FILE)

Published on Apr 27, 2022 03:33 pm IST

Work towards a robust climate action now

The climate-critical 1.5°C temperature increase is expected to arrive a decade earlier than the IPCC anticipated three years ago under all emission scenarios. Southeast Asia is also expected to be one of the world’s most sensitive regions to climate change.(BLOOMBERG)

Updated on Apr 13, 2022 01:53 pm IST

Manage or close the tap: International law to end plastic pollution

Proceeding with the intention to end plastic pollution, an international legally binding instrument needs to be introduced(Wikimedia Commons)

Published on Mar 29, 2022 07:37 pm IST

India must act on mining and exploration of critical minerals for green tech

in 2015, India announced its Nationally Determined Contributions, including reducing its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) emission intensity by 33-35% in 2030 from 2005 levels. This commitment has been revised to a 45% reduction during COP26. Critical minerals shall play an important role to achieve these goals.

Updated on Feb 23, 2022 03:48 pm IST

Biodiversity loss and climate change pose a real threat to our agri-food systems

Biodiversity, whether at the level of genetic, species or ecosystem, strengthens the capacity of smallholder farmers, livestock keepers, pastoralists, forest dwellers, fishers and fish farmers to produce food and a range of other goods and services in a vast variety of different environments.

Published on Feb 16, 2022 01:01 am IST

Common but different futures: AI inequity and climate crisis

Artificial Intelligence or AI will provide the most game-changing solutions to the climate crisis.

Published on Feb 13, 2022 01:57 pm IST

Airing differences: Political narrative on air quality management in India

Air pollution exposure is a pan-India, year-round public health crisis estimated to cause the deaths of more than 1.2 million Indians every year.

Published on Dec 18, 2021 08:25 pm IST

Climate entrepreneurship or green jobs can drive bottom-up climate action

Solar panels at the site of solar energy projects developer Saurya Urja Company of Rajasthan Limited, at the Bhadla Solar Park in Bhadla, in the northern Indian state of Rajasthan. (AFP)

Updated on Dec 20, 2021 02:44 pm IST

Goal-setting and planning for decarbonising India's power sector

Since 2010, when the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM) was launched, there have been unprecedented technological and other changes in the energy sector, particularly dramatic reductions in the cost of renewable energy (RE)- based power.

Updated on Dec 13, 2021 07:35 pm IST

The future of climate action: In search of a united global south

Preventing further social and economic damage because of climate change requires costly mitigation and adaptation policies and technologies.(REUTERS)

Published on Nov 13, 2021 05:21 pm IST

Mapping India’s climate vulnerability: A district-level assessment

The first tranche of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report is a grim reminder of the make-or-break choices that we need to make in a 1.5°C-breaching climate.

Published on Nov 11, 2021 09:41 pm IST

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