On the defensive at Cancun?

Recently Arun Jaitley identified agriculture and investment as the two main issues for next month's World Trade Organization ministerial …

Biogas rediscovered

Innovative Vidarbha farmers make biogas plants viable.

Black money

Economic concerns make the US promote unclean fuel

Not as wheatful as expected

Certified seeds turned out spurious: Punjab farmers

UP’s mini-grid policy tries to boost rural electrification

Private players can now set up solar plants to power rural households and recover tariff from the users in Uttar Pradesh

UK environmentalists tilt at windmills

The setting up of windmills in the British countryside has sparked off a heated debate because some conservationists contend they are …

Outsourcing drug trials

The international clinical trial business could come to India in a big way. The most advanced drugs might be available to Indians as soon as the …

Shortchanged

What ails the economies of the eight northeastern states? The warped fiscal policies of the Union government

The official bully

Newspaper>>Fuel Subsidies • Sudan

Germany goes green

Environment friendly farm policies will be the new paradigm

A fish called subsidy

Promotes inequality between fishers and hampers sustainable development

Government’s April 1 gift to farmers

Farmers foil water tariff hike, for now

Maharashtra’s water regulatory authority to hold more public hearings

Subsidies don’t help fight climate change, World Bank report finds

In 2021, countries shelled out $577 billion to actively lower the price of polluting fuels such as oil, gas, and coal  

US provides more than $20-billion subsidy to fossil fuel industry each year

Apart from disrupting the process of meeting global climate targets, it undermines the steps taken at states and cities level to address climate …

Apple subsidies a political game

Apples are at the care of Himachal politics and withdrawal of subsidies can be politically disastrous

World Trade Report

Odisha’s corn push

State rolls out scheme to reimburse fertiliser cost of maize farmers

Shocking betrayal

Visibly efficient

Fossil Fuel Suicide Why fossil fools will cost us the Earth

fun and informative look at what harm fossil fuels cause and how renewable technologies can help stem the decline in our environment.

Locating the State

In September 2004, Down To Earth carried a two-part editorial on the failure of the State to deliver basic services. In the September 15, 2004 …

Will cash transfer check migration?

India needs to be cautious as experience shows it can backfire

More clean energy

Cess on diesel car