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Sunita Narain

Sunita Narain

Sunita Narain

Sunita Narain

Wayanad tragedy: Who is responsible for the heart-breaking landslides?

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

Wayanad tragedy: Who is responsible for the heart-breaking landslides?
Updated On : 01 Sep 2024 | 10:45 PM IST

Air pollution is a great equaliser

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

Air pollution is a great equaliser
Updated On : 04 Aug 2024 | 9:52 PM IST

A matter of life and death

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

A matter of life and death
Updated On : 07 Jul 2024 | 10:11 PM IST

Agenda in the time of climate change

This is the time for change; for society to build green because it is inclusive; to build growth, because it is sustainable

Agenda in the time of climate change
Updated On : 09 Jun 2024 | 11:25 PM IST

New economy, old habits

There is no doubt that the world needs to move with speed and at scale. But what will be the business model that we take to the new green world?

New economy, old habits
Updated On : 12 May 2024 | 10:05 PM IST

Bengaluru's story today; your city's tomorrow

Every drop can be used for the coming period of scarcity. Then it can do its sewage differently

Bengaluru's story today; your city's tomorrow
Updated On : 31 Mar 2024 | 10:21 PM IST

Rethink the way we grow food

The fact is that the European farming system, which epitomises modern agriculture as we know it today, has survived only because of massive subsidy

Rethink the way we grow food
Updated On : 03 Mar 2024 | 9:36 PM IST

Trade rules for the planet and people

The Indian government has announced fiscal incentives for solar cell and module manufacture and imposed higher import duties on Chinese products

Trade rules for the planet and people
Updated On : 04 Feb 2024 | 10:37 PM IST

ATM agriculture requires imagination

In this agriculture, conventional science is turned upside down

ATM agriculture requires imagination
Updated On : 07 Jan 2024 | 10:05 PM IST

COP 28: Changing the narrative

Targeting coal means shifting the burden of the transition to countries that cannot afford even dirty energy to meet the needs of their people

COP 28: Changing the narrative
Updated On : 10 Dec 2023 | 10:00 PM IST

Dark underbelly of carbon trade

World leaders need to learn from the mistakes of the voluntary carbon market so that this new market mechanism does not repeat them

Dark underbelly of carbon trade
Updated On : 12 Nov 2023 | 9:38 PM IST

Triple jeopardy in health

This is not all. Not only are we not conserving the existing stock of medicines, the drug pipeline for new antibiotics is drying up, or has done so already

Triple jeopardy in health
Updated On : 01 Oct 2023 | 9:46 PM IST

The impact of food on climate

The problem is that there are two distinct agricultural worlds

The impact of food on climate
Updated On : 03 Sep 2023 | 10:08 PM IST

Thus begins our season of despair

We must not slip into believing that fixing this mess is beyond our control. Then there is no way ahead. This would be the ultimate tragedy

Thus begins our season of despair
Updated On : 06 Aug 2023 | 10:45 PM IST
Updated On : 09 Jul 2023 | 9:52 PM IST

Our population question

There is no doubt that more people will need more resources to survive. But it cannot be argued that population growth is an indicator of the resultant environmental degradation

Our population question
Updated On : 11 Jun 2023 | 10:07 PM IST

Reinvent tiger conservation

The new conservation agenda should not revolve around tiger versus tribal

Reinvent tiger conservation
Updated On : 30 Apr 2023 | 10:48 PM IST

Getting out of fossils

Unless finances are proportionate to the need, the transition to clean energy is a tough proposition, especially in countries where energy affordability is critical

Getting out of fossils
Updated On : 02 Apr 2023 | 11:25 PM IST

Coal vs gas, or coal and gas?

Coal is bad, and so is natural gas, when it comes to climate change. Then why is it that the Western world, which has to date built its economy on dirty coal, is now wedded to gas as its dream fuel?

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Updated On : 05 Mar 2023 | 8:46 PM IST

Joshimath: A well-engineered calamity

We have completely lost the ability to plan keeping in mind the ecological uniqueness of the region

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Updated On : 05 Feb 2023 | 11:32 PM IST