We are not at peace with nature

What can I wish for in the middle of a pandemic? It is not going to be a “new” year if we continue with our foolish ways of managing …

Zero the way to go

Delhi Air Emergency: Capital bending the curve but more action needed

Delhi’s pollution levels should be reduced so that even when air speeds go down, cold air settles and episodes of high pollution strike, it …

CoP26 a missed opportunity: Graduate from kindergarten diplomacy

The much-delayed climate summit in Glasgow did little to acknowledge that combatting climate change requires cooperation at a scale never seen before

CoP 26: World is on the line at Glasgow

Reclaiming leadership and voice to rebuild the trust of people — both rich and poor — should top the agenda at Glasgow

India’s new climate targets: Bold, ambitious and a challenge for the world

An already low-emitter, India’s new commitments to fight climate change force the historical emitters and China to commit to bolder emission-…

Agenda for CoP26

Embrace the future, don't erase the reality of climate injustice

A week of arrogance and distrust

An interdependent world can’t be an inequitable world. We are seriously off track on many counts, writes Sunita Narain

The past about to return

The US-China rivalry will lead to more competition, paving a comeback for a ’brown agenda’ we can ill afford

Year(s) of the virus: Things we must not forget

The sheer power of the virus, our collective callousness, the sufferings of the working class... there are lessons to be learnt …

Water for fruits: Why Abohar and Ganganagar’s citrus revolution needs encouragement

We need to build wealth from prudent and wise use of natural resources. Use scare water for fruit economy instead of paddy

IPCC’s new report on climate change is a call to action

The latest IPCC report confirms that we can no longer lose time in prevarication or in finding new excuses not to act, including empty promises …

Make trade work for climate

EU’s carbon border tax won’t take us towards a cooperative world required to combat climate change

This heatwave is not a weather blip

Silent pandemic needs agenda for change

The rise of antimicrobial resistance is as catastrophic as COVID-19 or climate change  

Re-embrace democracy, Free World

The pandemic response will become truly global only when the vaccine becomes a global good

World Environment Day 2021: The real oximeter

What we need is an evergreen revolution that secures livelihood, provides for energy security and combats climate change

Governance matters: COVID-19 pandemic shows how

India’s shame is not the virus but the fact that we do so little to provide healthcare even in normal times  

Zero-zero, net zero

The fact that Joe Biden is not a climate denier is good news. But it is not enough  

Water in age of climate change

We now need to be more than obsessive about water and its management as it is the basis of health and wealth

Being humans: How do we look back at COVID-19 lockdown a year since

What has the disruption taught us? Has the lack of socialisation made us better humans or worse? What will the future be like when we have more …

Stockholm+50: How do we prepare for the next half century

When we mark the 50th anniversary of the 1972 Stockholm conference, we need to discuss consumption and production in a globalised world

Chamoli glacier burst: Himalayan blunders compounded

The issue is about carrying capacity of the fragile region, which is even more at risk because of climate change

Vaccine leadership, not chauvinism

We need the world’s drug regulators to come together to scrutinise clinical trial data — not take decisions one after another

Farmers need support, period

It is time we talked about the real cost of our food, about how to benefit farmers who grow our food