Sunita Narain is an Indian environmentalist and the director general of the Centre for Science and Environment. She is also the editor of Down To Earth and was awarded the Stockholm Water Prize in 2005 for her work in promoting water literacy.
Sunita Narain is an Indian environmentalist and the director general of the Centre for Science and Environment. She is also the editor of Down To Earth and was awarded the Stockholm Water Prize in 2005 for her work in promoting water literacy.
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
This is the time for change; for society to build green because it is inclusive; to build growth, because it is sustainable
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?
Every drop can be used for the coming period of scarcity. Then it can do its sewage differently
The fact is that the European farming system, which epitomises modern agriculture as we know it today, has survived only because of massive subsidy
The Indian government has announced fiscal incentives for solar cell and module manufacture and imposed higher import duties on Chinese products
In this agriculture, conventional science is turned upside down
Targeting coal means shifting the burden of the transition to countries that cannot afford even dirty energy to meet the needs of their people
World leaders need to learn from the mistakes of the voluntary carbon market so that this new market mechanism does not repeat them
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