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Sunita Narain: The poor against the poor on climate

Poor nations have been sparring over emission cuts without realising that the fight is a deliberate creation of rich countries

Sunita Narain: Clean energy, dirty business

CSE study shows that wind energy business often subverts the purpose for profit, and wind farms do not generate energy

Sunita Narain: Doha: if not now, when?

At the Doha climate change conference, the world agreed to strengthen the framework for future action. But it is now that action is needed

Sunita Narain: Ponty, buses and PPPs

Since cities have little money to cover operational costs of running buses, they do not invest in new buses or modern infra

Sunita Narain: Power sector's mercury conspiracy

Until we expose the complicity between science and govt in making the region's people suffer, we will not find ways of preventing more Singraulis

Sunita Narain: Fighting Delhi's smog

Although each vehicle has become cleaner, air quality remains poor because of the drastic increase in the number of vehicles

Sunita Narain: Public investment, private profit

PPPs in infra are on the cusp of disaster. The country needs a different strategy to build public services infrastructure

Sunita Narain: A tale of two cities

Growth is happening faster than we ever imagined. Construction is booming and expansion is gobbling agricultural land

Sunita Narain: An off-grid power solution

In an off-grid but interactive system, govt would provide feed-in tariff incentives for entrepreneurs to set up local solar energy systems

Sunita Narain: Temporary solution, permanent jam

Cars use more space, crowd the road and move far fewer people. Our educated road planners must count people, not vehicles

Sunita Narain: Courage wins over poison

Kerala govt's ban on endosulfan prevails. State pays monthly pension of Rs 2,000 to those who are bedridden and Rs 1,000 to the ailing and disabled

Sunita Narain: Powerless and lost

So, why the power crisis? Reasons are deeply systemic & extremely worrying. There is no doubt that supply is constrained

Sunita Narain: Stained steel

The iron and steel sector is non-transparent, non-compliant with weak environmental norms and is getting away with it because of an even weaker regulatory framework

Sunita Narain: Rio - Not plus or minus

Final document is being touted as victory for developing world, as it reiterates principle of common but differentiated responsibilities

Sunita Narain: Why drought reigns eternal

It is mostly caused by deliberate neglect and designed failure of the way we manage water and land

Sunita Narain: Pollution, the great leveller

Sunita Narain: Greening gas and coal policy

Unavailability of natural gas and destruction of forests and water bodies due to our inability to use our coal fields optimally is having a huge impact on our health and environment

Sunita Narain: The trouble with junk food

It is not in the interest of food companies to advertise what their products contain, but it is in our interest to know

Sunita Narain: Questioning the shale gas 'revolution'

The world does not need another cheap energy option, it needs options that will drive it to secure its future

Sunita Narain: Grand idea - or distraction?

The idea of interlinking rivers is appealing because it is so grand, but this is also the reason it is nothing more than a distraction