Global Environmental Governance

Global environmental negotiations on issues such as climate change, biodiversity and desertification often seem to be far removed from the …

A drought of foresight

Piecemeal proposals

The recommended grain policy may help tackle the problem of plenty, but food insecurity will remain (Read full article)

Breach of trust

This is not a story about floods in Bihar. This is a story about how an entire society has been corrupted by money meant to build embankments for …

India's 'no' to GM food aid

Ahead of polls, BPL politics in Chhattisgarh

The Future is Now

In 1992, the world moved several steps towards globalisation. But little attention was paid to the sharp economic, social and cultural divides. …

Technosolutions

The need of the hour is technological innovation that helps tackle both poverty and environmental degradation

UPDATE: Food crunch

Drought, but why: Area under cultivation has halved in Andhra Pradesh's Ananthapuramu

Decades of deficit rainfall, monoculture in agriculture and perpetually mounting farmer debts have left the district in the lurch

Seeking Reliance

The Andhra Pradesh government is giving forests that sustain tribal communities to the Reliance group of industries for plantations. That, too, …

Below Poverty Line census: fudging figures?

A survey currently underway in states to calculate the number of below poverty line households is being opposed tooth and nail by civil society …

Interactive map to monitor gaps in sanitation launched

The map will help monitor the progress in the construction of toilets in all districts

Whose CARBON hypocrisy?

Should Northern groups campaign to stop fossil fuel funding in the South?

Over 30 million in 5 African countries may need food aid this year: Report

More than 55 million in 7 IGAD member states faced acute hunger in 2022 — an increase of 13 million from 2021

SDG 7: World still off-track from achieving universal energy access to all, says UN report

High inflation, debt distress, policy inactions and lagging financial flows slowing access to electricity, clean cooking in developing economies

Will he beat around the bush?

He may not have a clean environmental track record. But as president, George W Bush will have to tread carefully

In Short

Largesse with agenda

Food aid comes a cropper

34% of environmental indicators under SDGs lack standards

Lack of standards means there is no benchmark from which to calculate the Sustainable Development Goals

Waste-to-energy plant loses aid

ADB withdraws Rs 10 crore

Still unprotected: COVID-19, underfunding plagues child protection aid

African countries among the worst affected: Funding for child protection dropped to 38% in 2019 from 88% in 2018 in South Sudan 

Civil society groups call for an end to carbon markets, green economy

Margarita Declaration, issued at the end of the four day pre-COP conference in Venezuela, was backed by UN but goes against the global agency's …

Green tribunal asks tough questions on Uttarakhand development

Issues show-cause notice to state government, environment ministry; seeks details on development plans, environmental impact studies, preventive …