Chewing up the resources

Rising like the Phoenix

After suffering a spate of floods villagers regain environmental and economic vitality

A fighting chance

One man's dedication transformed the degraded, deforested land of his village

Earth links

Reaping the benefits

CFM brings social and economic prosperity to several village communities

The bare essentials

To make community forest management a success

Orissa villagers protect forest, reap benefits

SDGs as good as gone unless the world takes URGENT action

All 17 SDGs, set at the UN General Assembly in 2015, are in jeopardy due to the climate crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic and an increase in the …

Book Digest: Stories of women in leadership, trends empowering them and more

From accounts of the Spanish Flu to COVID-19, DTE tracks contemporary books on development from leading authors

G8 report calls for easing of government regulations to boost ‘impact investing’

G8’s special task force stresses the need for investment by impact-driven commercial organisations to aid social development programmes in …

Global Ocean Commission calls for 5-year deadline to save oceans from overfishing, pollution

Report warns that urgent action needed; stresses on establishing greater international cooperation

Tense over energy

South Asia is looking at an energy abyss. Millions of its people have no access to electricity or any other energy. This has put the brakes on …

UN sustainable development goals: Countries need bottom-up approach, urgent actions to meet targets

‘It is high time countries took urgent, extraordinary actions towards a just & inclusive recovery’

State of India’s Environment 2021: People and planet in peril

COVID-19 may become endemic, or will continue to erupt but in limited ways in certain geographies. But its trails are already disrupting the …

The world in his pocket

Kamal Nath is one of the few Indian ministers to have acquired an international image. He has traversed the globe to attend various environmental …

Nature's wrath

Even flash floods cannot refresh the authorities' understanding of the dynamic and fragile ecosystem of the Himalaya

Precious time is being wasted in formulating a forest convention

Ola Ullsten , former prime minister of Sweden and co-chairperson of the World Commission on Forests and Sustainable Development, spoke to Amit …

A lesson for India

Despite disputes over commercialisation of forest produce, experts believe the movement will not be derailed. Meanwhile, India can take a lesson …

A troubled frontier

A government circular aimed at ending commercialisation of forests in the terai affects the hills, too. In the process, it threatens to derail …

Chronicling CFM

Community forestry, as it is practiced today, is a result of the government's willingness to learn from its past mistakes. Also, traditional …

$1.5 trillion global trade finance gap affecting SDG targets: ADB

Women entrepreneurs and small and medium-sized enterprises are the worst-hit

UNDP administrator pushes for forest protection for sustainable development at Davos

‘Commodity production without deforestation a win-win situation’

The road ahead

A logjam in the making

Lack of enthusiasm marks the preparations for the World Summit on Sustainable Development

Stepping on the gas