As India’s industrial sector grows, creating a regular and stable supply of clean energy will be essential for meeting the country’s climate targets.
Hydrogen is not just a fuel, but more a universal carrier and a way to store energy.
In addition to environmental consequences, permafrost thaw carries significant and multi-faceted security implications — direct and indirect, ongoing and potential, local and global.
Championing a climate and development agenda in India’s bilateral, regional and multilateral collaborations can help boost trade, drive investments to inclusive solutions, and foster progress towards sustainable and resilient transition.
While gender has been increasingly factored into international climate policy, progress in India has been slow.
The policy decision to decarbonise capital flows are important in driving the necessary shift towards a more sustainable and resilient global order, but the shift must be nuanced and responsive to on-ground political realities, and target economies and sectors that have the most work to ...
The next few years will be critical to ensure the financial system is fit for purpose to deliver the financing needed to achieve environmental and other SDGs.
Improving the way food is produced — and also consumed — will go a long way towards addressing global warming.
A growing body of research suggests that indoor air pollution can be much more concentrated than pollution outside.
Tackling gender-based discriminations require transformative solutions, possible only if women are considered equal participants in the development process rather than passive beneficiaries.
This problem has been continuing for quite some time and is highly prevalent in the existing literature on valuation of ecosystem services — in general — and values of carbon stock and sequestration in particular.
There are growing calls amongst a section of political and industry leaders for a “great reset” of capitalism.
To mobilise a green, resilient and inclusive recovery, India will have to build stronger and broader partnerships domestically between central and state governments across multiple sectors.
How is it that forest cover in the country has increased but SDG 15 score has decreased? Simple, ‘Forest Cover’ and ‘Forest Area’ do not mean the same thing.
We could either choose the way that leads to better institutions and global systems, or the other, which compromises on environmental, social and ethical standards in the pursuit of growth.
Arpan Gelal is Research and Program Coordinator at the Centre for Social Innovation and Foreign Policy (CESIF), Nepal. He is also a teaching faculty at National College, Kathmandu University. He researches and writes on Nepal’s foreign policy, international relations, geopolitics, ...
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