People's initiatives

Orissa and UP villages once again prove that people are better managers of natural resources than today's obdurate governments

Tamil Nadu's tank rehab scheme does not hold water

Government approach to restoring traditional waterbodies of Tamil Nadu doesn't hold water

Private sector wants to adopt public health bodies

क्या गरीब देशों को कर्ज के भंवर जाल में फंसा देगा क्लाइमेट फंड?

क्लाइमेट फाइनेंस के नाम पर दिए 4,40,637 करोड़ रुपए में से केवल एक तिहाई ही गरीब देशों तक पहुंच पाया था 

Green bonds: Is it green finance or green-washing?

A foremost requirement to develop a robust green bond market is to harmonise international and domestic guidelines and standards for …

Union Budget 2020-21: Finance Minister promises Rs 4,400 cr to fight air pollution

But the budget document does not reflect the bold increase  

BJP’s maiden budget disappointing for farmers

Jaitley continues with UPA schemes on agriculture, allocates more funds

Ready for only tourists

Uttarakhand government has carried out rehabilitation projects only in tourist circles and ignored other areas that were hit by floods last year

Help Kerala’s rubber sector recover from crisis, urges state finance minister

In the run up to Union Budget 2015, M Suchitra speaks to Kerala Finance Minister K M Mani to draw up a list of the state’s expectations …

Jairam Ramesh seeks to minimise budget cut for rural development

Gives details to finance ministry on the impact of revised budget estimates on individual schemes

Budget offers big push for rural infrastructure

Green transportation gets lip service

Not a bankable strategy

World Bank's forestry projects have not helped reduce poverty, says its own evaluator

‘Let farmers decide the price’

Mani Chinnaswamy’s contract farming model has prompted IIM graduates to study his Appachi formula. After all, it gives farmers the right to …

Corporate wastelands

Tamil Nadu seems set to gift community land to corporates under the name of wasteland regeneration

Catchment Area Treatment Plan funds badly spent in Himachal

US bank uses carbon smokescreen

EXIM Bank nearly denied funds to Reliance’s coal-fired plant

The World After

Budget 2005-2006: the missing audit

Seeking Reliance

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

Dry clean

A Bangalore slum experiments with ecofriendly toilets

Is tackling climate change economically viable?

Lost and damaged

Negotiations on loss and damage signal a weak deal

Problems continue for Bangalore-Mysore expressway

Financing emissions from jets and cows

Environmental scientist Robert Goodland , who served the World Bank Group between 1978 and 2001 is credited with authoring some of the Bank's …

Stupid growth