At the start of the republic, India found a normative voice on the global stage through its moral stand against colonialism. Now a rising India needs a new normative agenda. It might get it through environmental policy.
Unless a sectoral re-allocation of water resources enforcing adequate demand management is done, the issues of water scarcity might not be resolved.
The government has announced an ambitious target of providing piped clean drinking water to all rural households by 2024. Although a worthy goal, it is unclear how the government proposes to achieve this formidable target under the current circumstances.
Driving forward, the implementation of the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda in a coherent and mutually supportive manner is a significant opportunity for modernising our economies, enhancing competitiveness, and stimulating employment and growth.
It is clear that something can and should be done in humanitarian settings globally to change the way the UN and NGOs operate.
A stronger focus on SDGs in the context of soft power and trade enhancement will be one of the major drivers of Sino-Indian partnership in the near future.
The increase in share of usage of cleaner and cleanest cooking technology from the baseline has to be one of the criteria to define success of the clean cooking initiative.
The introduction of the off-grid solar photovoltaic (PV) power plants can be integrated with the conventional electricity system for the electrification of PHCs/CHCs.
In India, a prime factor for the slowdown in the solar photovoltaics (PV) sector in 2018 was the implementation of the safeguard duty on imported solar panels.
Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) as an appproach implies that farms need to become more resilient to climate change and efficient in their input use.
There are many gains of trade liberalisation to be reaped by a given country in the long-run.
India in the past few years has seen over-subscription of green bonds. This shows that there are high levels of interest in the issuance of green bonds from both issuers and investors.
With the current government’s plan to build 100 smart cities in India, buildings sector in India has a huge potential to achieve enhanced efficiency in energy consumption.
By having progressive targets and ensuring that the targets are met, Export Credit Agencies can facilitate greater availability and accessibility of tools needed to tackle a changing climate.
In the years since Paris, the world has changed — Prime Minister Modi has seized on the momentum.
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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