Biden’s transformational challenge

Though the US is no longer addicted to coal, it is completely sold on the idea of cheap energy, writes Sunita Narain

Stockholm syndrome: What should ‘+50’ be about

The 50th anniversary celebration of the Stockholm conference should be about our common future, not the divisions of the past

Climate emergency CoP 25: Circumventing climate action

What should be done, now that the longest CoP is over

Embrace disruption and keep walking the green way

Too much time has been wasted in looking for answers that are convenient, not real

CoP 26: World is on the line at Glasgow

Reclaiming leadership and voice to rebuild the trust of people — both rich and poor — should top the agenda at Glasgow

World doesn’t have bandwidth to handle climate change-led migration

Every year is the hottest when immigrants are already living on the margins of survival

Need of the hour: Reinvent economic growth model

Future actions must accept the reality of climate equity and use it to drive economic growth

जलवायु परिवर्तन: संकट को नकारने की गुंजाइश खत्म

अब समय आ चुका है जब हम अपने पूर्वाग्रहों से बाहर निकलें और कुछ न करने के बहाने ढूंढना बंद करें

कॉप 26 : ग्लासगो से शुरू होगा दुनिया का नया अध्याय

कॉप 26 का शीर्ष एजेंडा अपने नेतृत्व और आवाज को फिर से हासिल करने वाला होना चाहिए ताकि अमीर और गरीब दोनों के विश्वास ...

दशक पर एक नजर: विस्फोटक दुनिया में हम

विकास ने पर्यावरण को काफी प्रभावित किया है, इसलिए 2010-2019 का दशक आखिरी मौका है कि हम ठोस और सही कदम उठाएं

“मानव निर्मित” आपदा

केरल में जो हुआ वह पूरी दुनिया में हो रहा है। यह एक असहज करने वाला तथ्य है कि हमारे पास बदलते मौसम से ...

Weather is 2017 person of the year

The biggest headline of 2017 is not deadly air pollution, but the catastrophe of weather changes that are bringing distress across India’s …

Old answers for ‘new’ monsoon

Mitigating floods and droughts has only one answer: obsessive attention to building millions and millions of connected and living water structures

US, equity and the elephants in the room

The issue of sharing the common atmospheric space has been at the core of discussions—the elephant in the room that we want to forget. It …

Climate change is real & world needs real leadership to fight it

WATCH: As President Joe Biden readies his climate summit for Earth Day, Sunita Narain spells out why and how the US and the …

Agenda for CoP26

Embrace the future, don't erase the reality of climate injustice

जलवायु परिवर्तन पर आईपीसीसी की नई रिपोर्ट के बाद कड़ी कार्रवाई की जरूरत

आईपीसीसी की ताजा रिपोर्ट इसकी पुष्टि करती है कि अब हम बातों में वक्त नहीं गंवा सकते या काम न करने के नए बहाने नहीं ...

Zero-zero, net zero

The fact that Joe Biden is not a climate denier is good news. But it is not enough  

Doha: inaction in the face of urgency

Why shouldn’t I be intolerant?

The circles of information have shrunk to what is most agreeable to listen to. It is no surprise that in all environmental conversations there is …

Time up for reinvention?

If 2018 was the year of revolt, 2019 should be the year of realisation that we must change the way we do business

C for clean

A prickly poser

There are inconvenient truths about rich countries and global greenhouse gas emissions; and the world is not listening 

This heatwave is not a weather blip

On Greta Thunberg and the protesting students

Sunita Narain on the lessons from the ongoing #FridaysForFuture demonstrations