Sunita Narain
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Sunita Narain
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.
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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
Sunita Narain: More of the same, and the same is not enough
Spending has been increased again, but there¿s still no effort in the Budget to improve outcomes
Sunita Narain: Etching new pathways to growth
The question is whether the protests across the world can be channelled to shape a better tomorrow
