Union Budget 2015: Missing the basics

Managing worsening environmental degradation requires massive investments in infrastructure, but Finance Minister Arun Jaitley confined himself …

Why US-China climate deal is neither ‘historic’ nor ‘ambitious’

It will take the world towards a catastrophic beyond 4°C temperature increase pathway

A symbolic budget

While all the right words have been used in the budget, the programmes are neither well thought out nor given sufficient funds

Obama's ambitious standards for power sector just not ambitious enough

It is projected that even in 2030, two-thirds of electricity in the US will be produced from fossil fuels (more gas and less coal); renewables …

Adding another national regulator will not help environment

India needs second-generation reforms in environmental governance to protect environment and community rights and reduce transaction costs for …

WHO report on antimicrobial resistance skips some obvious truths

It shies from mentioning the role of industry in promoting excessive use of antibiotics as well as its large-scale use in food-producing animals

Latest IPCC report reeks of northern agenda

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group Report III suggests historical emissions are a thing of the past; it endorses carbon …

India is not prepared to tackle climate change impacts

Warming will slow down economic growth and make poverty reduction more difficult, and further erode food security

Who needs ultra mega solar power plants?

Government plans to set up four large-scale solar power plants that will cost a whopping Rs 1.2 lakh crore. Will they serve millions of energy poor?

The end game: Will Warsaw be a repeat of Poznan?

Climate negotiations at Warsaw may give the world a financial mechanism to deal Loss and Damage, but it may be a non-starter like the Adaptation …

I (don’t) care

Poland is not the only problem. Every developed country is now going back on its past commitments

Montreal Protocol: A successful treaty?

Even as the fate of HFCs hangs in uncertainty, there remains much at stake for the Montreal Protocol

Healing festering wounds

An action plan is ready to decontaminate UCILÔÇÖs plant site in Bhopal. It just needs to be implemented

Obama’s grand climate plan doesn’t add up

Obama used all the right words. He tried to please all. But ultimately it will not curb emissions in the US to the required levels. Further, it …

Please don’t preach Mr Kerry, act at home

US secretary of state John Kerry has a 'one solar panel, one bulb' solution for India’s energy challenge, and is no different from his …

Polarisation and anarchy

Environmental challenges have grown manifold in past five years, but capacity of institutions to deal with them has decreased in same proportion

Reform for reform’s sake

Without bottom-up rehauling National Environment Protection Agency will be more of the same

COP24: Sum and substance of climate diplomacy

Climate change negotiations must move from being a zero-sum game to a positive-sum game

Climate change should be at centre of India's development policies

Beyond a certain temperate increase, our ecosystem and economy cannot adapt and, climate change is a clear and present danger

Ease of living without a clean environment is meaningless

Finance Minister largely ignored environmental challenges in the budget

Budget 2013: the path remains the same

Post-Paris: climate realpolitik

India needs a new narrative, a new strategy and new allies

Let us be smart about 'differentiation'

It important to deconstruct the politics of differentiation

Nod to Dibang project shows why present forest clearance process needs to be scrapped

Persisting with the current institutional arrangement will do more harm than good

Free the air of mercury

Newly launched Minamata Convention weak on mercury released by thermal power plants