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Addressing vulnerabilities in the supply chain of critical minerals

Published on Apr 09, 2023 01:47 PM IST

This paper has been authored by Karthik Ganesan, Rishabh Jain, Vibhuti Chandhok, and others from CEEW.

G20
ByHindustan Times

Climate change and how it is giving rise to vector-borne diseases

This article is authored by Vikram Vora, medical director, Indian sub-continent, International SOS.

Climate change(AFP)
Published on Apr 07, 2023 12:50 PM IST
ByHindustan Times

Developing resilient renewable energy supply chains

This paper has been authored by Akanksha Tyagi, Dhruv Warrior and others from CEEW.

Renewable Energy
Published on Apr 04, 2023 01:31 PM IST
ByHindustan Times

The critical role of financed emissions in India’s path to net-zero

This article is authored by Dr. Sidhant J Pai (PhD), Co-founder & Chief Science Officer, StepChange.

As the world begins the transition to a low-carbon economy, the financial sector will need to get up to speed on a long list of methods, standards and frameworks designed to mitigate and abate climate change.. (Mark Schiefelbein/AP)
Published on Mar 31, 2023 11:04 AM IST
ByHindustan Times

Earth Hour: A time to reflect

The article has been authored by Shraman Jha, CEO, Hindustan Unilever Foundation (HUF).

India gate seen before the Earth Hour in New Delhi, India. (Ravi Choudhary / HT Photo)
Published on Mar 25, 2023 12:48 PM IST
ByHindustan Times

Paving the way for access to clean water and sanitation

The article has been authored by Biswanath Sinha, Director, Policy and Technical Support, WaterAid India.

Erratic monsoons and decreasing groundwater resources will lead to an increase in the cost of water and inequitable access to it and the lack of water resources can hamper the amount of safe water needed by families for Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH).
Published on Mar 22, 2023 02:09 PM IST
ByHindustan Times

Accelerating climate action with social entrepreneurship

The article has been authored by Alankrita Khera, director, brand & communications at ACT, a non-profit venture philanthropy platform that focuses on climate action, education, health care and gender inclusivity.

The issue of climate finance has been raised at the Sharm el-Sheikh Climate Change Conference. (AFP)
Published on Jan 14, 2023 01:11 PM IST
ByHindustan Times

Everything that’s wrong with carbon offsets and what can we do about it?

This article has been authored by Ramnath Vaidyanathan, AVP & Head- Environmental Sustainability, Godrej Industries Limited & Associate Companies.

Carbon offsets are a mitigation strategy and do not address the pertinent issue of absolute CO2 emissions reduction, which should be the primary driver for climate.(AP (Representative Image))
Published on Jan 12, 2023 12:28 PM IST
ByHindustan Times

Bring cities to the high table of global climate policies

The article has been authored by Hitesh Vaidya, director and Sayli Mankikar, head, City Climate Alliance, National Institute of Urban Affairs.

New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg once famously said, “While nations talk, but too often drag their heels—cities act”.
Published on Dec 12, 2022 05:28 PM IST
ByHindustan Times

Combating the new wave of climate-related trade protectionism

The article has been authored by Jahanwi Singh, economist, Export-Import Bank of India.

There has been a steady increase in environment-related notifications and measures by World Trade Organization (WTO) member countries.(AP Photo)
Published on Dec 08, 2022 11:46 AM IST
ByHindustan Times

Women and girls are key to climate justice

The article has been authored by Shailja Mehta, director, Dasra and Lead, 10to19 Dasra Adolescents Collaborative, Akanksha Singh and Ziya Jaffer work at 10to19 Collaborative.

Climate change poses exacerbated risks for India. Women face a disproportionate burden of this threat as they remain socially, politically, and economically marginalised -- the only group more vulnerable are girls.
Published on Oct 08, 2022 03:16 PM IST
ByHindustan Times

Reimagining climate-resilient food systems in a post-pandemic world

The article has been authored by Shoba Suri and Aparna Roy.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has found that every year, nearly 600 million people (7.5% of the global population) fall ill from eating contaminated food and 420,000 die because of it.(Flickr)
Published on Aug 23, 2022 11:19 AM IST
ByORF

The Thar needs restoration; and greening is not the solution

The article has been authored by Chetan Misher  an ecologist studying the dry grasslands of India and their associated wildlife . And Priya R, a geologist who has worked on landscape ecology and management in Rajasthan and the Western Ghats.

 Today, while we are celebrating the 75th Independence of our nation, our desert is greener than it ever was. Yet this greening does not symbolise a healthy functional state of the Thar ecosystem.
Published on Jul 15, 2022 12:36 PM IST
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Why open data is key to environmental action

The article has been authored by Veena Srinivasan, director, Centre for Social and Environmental Innovation at ATREE, Bengaluru; Sameer Shisodia, CEO, Rainmatter Foundation; and Jagdeesh Rao Puppala, former CEO, Foundation for Ecological Security.

Environmental campaigns are marked by rousing calls for collective, transformative action on a global scale. A lot of organisations and individuals - from state actors and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives to grassroots initiatives - grapple with patchy information about the sector or region that they are involved in.
Published on Jul 01, 2022 04:57 PM IST
ByHindustan Times

Governments and industry must collaborate to protect the environment

The article has been authored by Valerio di Caprio, global franchise director – SSP and PEN, Centrient Pharmaceuticals.

The recently held 26th meeting of the Conference of Parties (COP) underlined the urgency to limit the average global temperature rise to below 2 degrees by phasing down the use of fossil fuels, financially supporting the mitigation of climate change in developing countries and achieving net-zero carbon emissions by the year 2050, among others.
Published on Jun 05, 2022 09:49 AM IST
ByHindustan Times

Boost collaborations for green transformations

The article has been authored by Hitesh Vaidya and Sayli Mankikar.

One of the biggest challenges ahead of the policymakers is— bridging the gap and creating a close connection between the challenges of changing climate, cities and its people.(AP)
Published on Jun 05, 2022 09:39 AM IST
ByHindustan Times

Tree planting in open ecosystems has few benefits

The article has been authored by Iravatee Majgaonkar, PhD scholar, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bangalore

Here, India promised to bring 26 million hectares of degraded land under restoration efforts by 2030.
Published on Jun 05, 2022 09:10 AM IST
ByHindustan Times

Localising green transitions in India

The article has been authored by Sam Downes, Saurabh Modi and Jagan Shah at Artha Global, a research and consulting organization.

At COP-26 in November 2021, the Government of India announced a five-point plan to tackle climate change, including an ambition to reach net zero emissions by 2070.(Flicker)
Published on Jun 03, 2022 07:08 PM IST
ByHindustan Times

Planet politics in the era of climate crisis

The article has been authored by Amar Patnaik is a Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha, from Odisha

According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in 2021, India is at the topmost hotspot of terrestrial water storage loss (TWS), having lost TWS at a rate of three to four cm each year, the highest loss recorded after Antarctica and Greenland.(AP)
Published on May 24, 2022 03:04 PM IST
ByHindustan Times

 The ease of doing sustainability

The piece has been authored by Veena Srinivasan is director of the Centre for Social and Environmental Innovation at ATREE, Bengaluru.

The problem is relying on virtue signalling to save the planet is counter-productive.
Published on May 10, 2022 02:16 PM IST
ByHindustan Times

Is the apex court backtracking on environmental principles?

The article has been authored by Tarika Jain is a senior resident fellow with the climate & ecosystems team, Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, New Delhi.

The process of EIA has been established under the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 to give effect to the precautionary principle.(HT FILE)
Published on Apr 27, 2022 03:33 PM IST
ByHindustan Times

Work towards a robust climate action now

The article is authored bytAvinash Mishra is adviser and Madhubanti Dutta is Young Professional, NITI Aayog. 

The climate-critical 1.5°C temperature increase is expected to arrive a decade earlier than the IPCC anticipated three years ago under all emission scenarios. Southeast Asia is also expected to be one of the world’s most sensitive regions to climate change.(BLOOMBERG)
Updated on Apr 13, 2022 01:53 PM IST
ByNiti Aayog

 Manage or close the tap: International law to end plastic pollution

The study has been authored by namitra Anurag Danda is senior visiting fellow with ORF’s Energy and Climate Change Programme.

Proceeding with the intention to end plastic pollution, an international legally binding instrument needs to be introduced(Wikimedia Commons)
Published on Mar 29, 2022 07:37 PM IST
ByORF

India must act on mining and exploration of critical minerals for green tech

The study has been authored by Rajesh Chadha and Ganesh Sivamani, CSEP

in 2015, India announced its Nationally Determined Contributions, including reducing its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) emission intensity by 33-35% in 2030 from 2005 levels. This commitment has been revised to a 45% reduction during COP26. Critical minerals shall play an important role to achieve these goals.
Updated on Feb 23, 2022 03:48 PM IST
ByHindustan Times

Biodiversity loss and climate change pose a real threat to our agri-food systems

The piece has been authored by Konda Chavva, officer-in-charge, FAO Representation in India

Biodiversity, whether at the level of genetic, species or ecosystem, strengthens the capacity of smallholder farmers, livestock keepers, pastoralists, forest dwellers, fishers and fish farmers to produce food and a range of other goods and services in a vast variety of different environments.
Published on Feb 16, 2022 01:01 AM IST
ByHindustan Times

Common but different futures: AI inequity and climate crisis

The piece is authored by Trisha Ray

Artificial Intelligence or AI will provide the most game-changing solutions to the climate crisis.
Published on Feb 13, 2022 01:57 PM IST
ByORF

Airing differences: Political narrative on air quality management in India

The study has been authored by Santosh Harish, Mandakini Chandra, Sahithi Uppalapati 

Air pollution exposure is a pan-India, year-round public health crisis estimated to cause the deaths of more than 1.2 million Indians every year.
Published on Dec 18, 2021 08:25 PM IST
ByCPR

Climate entrepreneurship or green jobs can drive bottom-up climate action

The piece has been authored by Ananth Aravamudan, sector lead, Climate Action, at Villgro Innovations Foundation along with the Council on Energy, Environment and Water- run Powering Livelihoods, a programme that supports the scale-up of renewable energy usage in rural livelihoods.

Solar panels at the site of solar energy projects developer Saurya Urja Company of Rajasthan Limited, at the Bhadla Solar Park in Bhadla, in the northern Indian state of Rajasthan. (AFP)
Updated on Dec 20, 2021 02:44 PM IST
ByHindustan Times

Goal-setting and planning for decarbonising India's power sector

The study has been authored by Daljit Singh, fellow at the Centre for Social and Economic Progress. He works on India's power sector.

Since 2010, when the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM) was launched, there have been unprecedented technological and other changes in the energy sector, particularly dramatic reductions in the cost of renewable energy (RE)- based power.
Updated on Dec 13, 2021 07:35 PM IST
ByCentre for Social and Economic Progress

The future of climate action: In search of a united global south

The study has been authored by Rodrigo Fracalossi De Moraes

Preventing further social and economic damage because of climate change requires costly mitigation and adaptation policies and technologies.(REUTERS)
Published on Nov 13, 2021 05:21 PM IST
ByORF
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