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

The newer deal for a newer world

Victim of its success

MGNREGA blamed for causing labour shortage; cut in budgetary support likely

COVID-19 tanked India’s carbon emissions, but stimulus will drive them up again

The Rs 90,000-crore stimulus for power distribution companies fails to consider emissions reductions

What negotiations mean for least developed countries

They insist that loss and damage is a non-negotiable element of the Paris agreement

Swachh Bharat cess: A few states may not agree on it

Except Andhra Pradesh and Uttarakhand, no other state has directly agreed to the central proposal

Revamping US healthcare

US politicians and insurance companies claim to offer the best healthcare services in the world. Recently, however, top US experts have admitted …

International meet on Avian flu agree on a roadmap

Johan von Schreeb on humanitarian aid

Johan Von Schreeb, a surgeon who has worked for the group Medicins Sans Frontieres, is a public health scholar with the Karolinska Institutet, …

Dirty advance

Budget pitches for agriculture

No incentives for organic fertilizers and sustainable farming  

Not so lovely fair trade

Enter green bond

Market for green bonds picks up; experts urge caution

Panchayats to spend Rs 1.42 lakh crore on water and sanitation

Spend 60% grant on water and sanitation: 15th Finance Commission recommends to rural local bodies  

Agriculture: wrong prescription for right diagnosis

Finance minister’s decision to increase farm credit corpus and give more autonomy to states for agriculture schemes unlikely to help farmers