Interviews

‘We cannot accept another slow, bureaucratic climate fund’
Climate Change

‘We cannot accept another slow, bureaucratic climate fund’

Akshit Sangomla
6 min read
Civil society leader Lidy Nacpil warns that the Loss and Damage Fund remains under-resourced, slow and inaccessible, calling for rapid-response mechanisms, fairer modalities and stronger political wil ...
‘Tax the carbon content of investments of the rich’
Climate Change

‘Tax the carbon content of investments of the rich’

Richard Mahapatra
4 min read
Economists Lucas Chancel and Cornelia Mohren, authors of ‘Climate Inequality Report 2025’, on how investments and capital of the wealthiest few fuel the world’s climate crisis
Economist and Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee
Water

‘The poorer you are, the more expensive water is’

Preetha Banerjee
2 min read
Since we pretend partly that water is free, we have to ration it. When it is rationed, it is rationed to the poor, says economist and Nobel laureate
The institution of Langar predates Sikhism. But only in Sikhism does it become a religious tenet: Yogesh Snehi
‘Reefs as we have known them will not survive anywhere’
Gloria Magombo, Zimbabwe’s Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Energy and Power Development during the Accelerated Partnership for Renewables in Africa forum held in Freetown, Sierra Leone, from October 22-23, 2025.
Global South cities have a crucial opportunity to learn from costly mistakes elsewhere on land subsidence: Leonard Ohenhen
By tomorrow afternoon or evening, Delhi’s air quality will likely hover between ‘Poor’ and ‘Very Poor’: Gufran Beig
‘Depopulation would mean fewer people contributing to advancement of knowledge’
The amendment of the RTI Act to bring it in conformity with the DPDP Act was unnecessary: Wajahat Habibullah
Barren Island volcano’s activity is purely due to magmatic processes: Hetu Sheth
OIL lines up Rs 2,000 crore SAF plant and bets on bamboo ethanol to fuel its green transition 
‘Multiple displacement was beyond imagination, yet it became Singrauli’s reality’
Gyan Prakash Upadhyaya
Himalayan springs are cultural and ecological lifelines. But scientific studies on them remain fragmented: Vinod Kothari
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