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.
While it is increasingly clear that economies can simultaneously be green and grow rapidly, the shift to a new economic model requires both finance and technology.
Prioritisation of any one aspect — economic, social or environmental — would chart a lopsided course of development.
Our economic model is putting unsustainable pressures on our planetary boundaries. We can’t afford to continue ignoring how economic growth is generated, and how the gains from growth are distributed.
What we need is a shift of national economies away from fossil fuels on to a low-carbon footing and generate new jobs quickly.
Safeguarding rivers and river dolphins helps driving progress under SDG 14 — life below water. But it contributes to many more.
The challenge is not ‘to build back better’ but ‘to build forward better’ where the nature and climate nexus lies within the development paradigm.
The pandemic — while not caused by climate change — is a wonderful and horrible example of a radical non-stationary occurrence.
MDBs can cooperate with regional and local financial entities on developing a climate finance architecture and share with them lessons learnt while undertaking climate finance operations.
Our future as a country depends upon the route we take towards growth and, at the same time, how we resolve our environmental challenges.
To translate his plan into action, Biden will have to exercise his executive powers as President and depend heavily on federal agencies.
Affordability is a much trickier factor to deal with to help consumers from economically poor sections to retain their electricity supply.
To create a low-carbon tech-driven economy of the future running on clean energy — India would require access to key minerals.
The coal sector as a whole faces the problem of stranded asset on account of competition from renewable ― and policies changing globally ― away from coal-fired projects. This trend is reflected in India as well.
The risk associated with water availability gets complicated with global warming and climate change. This affects the scarcity value of water, and eventually results in volatilities in prices.
Tigran Yepremyan is the Dean of the Faculty of International Relations and an Associate Professor of World History and IR at the Yerevan State University, Armenia. ...
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Sambit Mishra is an Indian Administrative Services (IAS) officer currently posted as the Chief Executive Officer of the Zila Panchayat Korba Chhattisgarh. He has an academic background in Engineering, having graduated with a Bachelor of Technology (B Tech) in Biological ...
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