Sunita Narain

As the rules-based order fractures, geopolitics, minerals and energy rivalries are reshaping climate action, trade, and the future of global cooperation

Tariffs have been weaponised. They are now tools for reconfiguring global trade and foreign policy

Battery mandates and lower buyback tariffs aim to ease discom losses, but risk slowing household adoption of solar power

For the first time, renewable energy has overtaken coal as the primary source of electricity in the first six months of 2025

Trump's UN address targets global discontent, framing climate action as elite-driven, turning science into a political wedge for ideological gain

India must cut emissions from coal power with efficiency upgrades, biomass co-firing, and policy reforms while scaling up clean energy

To beat the trauma of congestion, we need to understand its political economy

In the IAEA report on Iran in May, its director-general flagged concerns of his inspectors on certain issues, including what it describes as the "rapid accumulation of enriched uranium"

By 2030, the penetration of EV sales would be 70 per cent of all new commercial cars, 30 per cent of private cars, 40 per cent of buses, and 80 per cent of two- and three wheelers

In the 25-odd years of this global trade order, there are now new losers and winners

This is not the time to bury our heads in the sand and think that the Donald Trump administration's energy policy will not lead to massive changes in their world and ours

Take the issue of clean-energy transition. India's imperative is to provide electricity to millions for livelihood security

Singh also had his pre-proposed ideas; what was in the textbook or his experience. But he opened the door; because he had an openness of thought, driven by his commitment to change

The public space is now privatised. It is not that democracy is dead, but that it has been fundamentally modified

The world has no doubt moved ahead on its journey to build a low-carbon economy and this cannot be reversed so easily

GRAP has become the only time we act, which, obviously, is too little and too late

As we mourn the demise of Ratan Tata, let's also mourn the passing of the time when business leaders like him ruled our world, when values of frugality and simplicity in personal life were cherished

In this age of climate change, the lessons from Wayanad are clear: Learn and change, or perish

In 2019, the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) launched the National Clean Air Programme (NCAP), as it is called, to fix the air quality of our cities

Climate change will throw at us many such surprises in terms of impact on human health. Even now, this science is not understood