Ecology

Developed countries need to scale up their climate finance commitments to enable developing countries to transition and adapt to climate change. Developing countries need to meet them halfway by being more ambitious about mitigation targets.

In 'Sharing Life: Alternative Worldviews,' Linda Chhakchhuak and other scholars explore the profound connection between indigenous knowledge, jhum cultivation, and sustainable resource management in Northeast India.

India's energy transition has become a prominent issue in both the BJP and Congress manifesto. Although the nation's clean energy future has been firmly set in motion, financial and policy challenges lie ahead for the future government. 

Electoral politics is driven by demands not needs, and voters can push for inclusion of environmental concerns on the agenda of political parties.

The decision at COP28 to operationalise the Loss and Damage Fund is a welcome move but it needs to be put on the fast track to ensure a secure future for vulnerable people.

The decision of moving away from fossil fuels, and operationalisation of the loss and damage fund are major wins from COP28.

The country’s transition rate to clean cooking fuel has to be tripled to meet SDG 7 goals and mitigate health and climate change.

The 28th conference is a milestone event where the international community must confront the harsh truths about our collective (and differentiated) efforts to combat climate emergency.

The transition from a combustion economy to an electron economy will not just help us move towards Net Zero but also reap economic benefits.

The transformative potential of decarbonisation is that it can meet socio-economic goals better than current development pathways.

The GM mustard debate raises profound questions of environmental sustainability, justice, and substantive citizenship in a deeply unequal society. 

Environmentalist Ashish Kothari on the global group’s impact – or lack of it – on sustainable development.

The Agenda 2030 is at its half-way point, yet the 17 goals for sustainable development remain a distant proposition. In the following conversation, Imme Scholz discusses the causes and points out how the global community may speed up their realisation.

It is time to cover the entire cycle of waste generation, collection and dumping, and also question excessive consumerism by the affluent.

It is important to recognise the role and knowledge of indigenous communities and make them active partners in drafting and implementing India’s water policies.

Lives and livelihoods of thousands of poor families are precariously connected to one of India’s biggest landfills. 

After the record-breaking rains that led to extreme floods in May and June 2022, Assam is reeling under drought. In this article, we analyse various human-induced and geological factors contributing to this calamity. While the government is pushing for more connectivity through roads and railways coupled with flood control through dams and embankments over the fragile ecology, these measures may have turned against the people and ecology of the region.

Assam in Northeast India has become more vulnerable than ever as millions have been displaced by floods due to excess pre-monsoon rains followed by a rain deficit. Aiding this vulnerability is a large infrastructure push in these regions primarily by the Central Government. In this article, we report the 2022 floods as the disaster unfolded in the state.

Scientific institutions like IPCC must communicate with the masses for effective climate action.  

India has entered a new age of hot extremes that will get worse if we fail to limit global warming.