carbon emissions
Not enough progress on net zero carbon emissions
December 8, 2020
A number of nations, including the European Union, Japan and the United Kingdom, have already announced new & more ambitious targets for carbon emissions targets agreed to in Paris. India looks well poised to do the same. But it’s unlikely to slow down global warming or arrest ...
Read MoreEarth Overshoot Day: India a role model for global consumption
August 22, 2020
Even though Earth Overshoot Day 2020 has been delayed by three weeks due to coronavirus pandemic, humanity is racing ahead to rapidly devour all global resources. If the whole world lived like Qatar, global resources for an entire year would be exhausted by February 11. For Luxem...
Read MoreCarbon trading and climate change
February 8, 2020
After two decades of a total failure, carbon trading was one of the biggest stumbling blocks at the climate change summit in December. It remains a bad idea that needs to be dropped.
Read MoreAir Pollution
December 28, 2015
Measures to check the menace of air pollution in Delhi by the executive and the judiciary has received both bouquets and brickbats. The truth is that air pollution is a clear and present danger and the time to act is now. Decimating the 15-year-old Congress party and neutralising...
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