Sunita Narain

The world faces action and inaction against climate: What will win?

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

Trump's rebranding of climate change is aimed more at global regime change

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

India can't do without coal, but can reduce emissions using tech, biomass

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

The solution to urban congestion is mass transit systems, not more roads

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

A true crisis of the commons: Climate change demands global consensus

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"

Electric vehicles: Why change is needed and how to make it happen

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

Revenge of the rich: Time to rethink and rewrite the global trade script

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

Climate change sidelined as America pivots to fossil-fuel-heavy future

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

Get the transition right: How govt is pushing for a clean-energy shift

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

Manmohan Singh, a gentle giant with vision and commitment to change

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

Looking back to look ahead to 2025: Economy, climate, and politics

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

What Trump's second term means for climate change and green policies

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

The clean air challenge: Delhi braces for worsening pollution this season

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

Ratan Tata: An environmentalist's homage to India's business icon

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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