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What will be the new normal?

What we should be really thinking about is the collective vulnerability of our world

Building resilience against climate change

The fact is climate change is real; it is happening and it is making the poor in our world more marginalised.

The decade we leave behind and ahead

In this decade, we have realised that climate change is not in the distant future. It is happening and its impact will only grow

Cheering for toilets but with caution

Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation (MoDWS) commissioned two private consultancies, IPE Global and Kantar, to conduct a nationwide survey to verify India's ODF status

Desertification: Rio's stepchild

Today, there should be no doubt that desertification is a global issue - it requires cooperation among nations

Immigration in hotter times

The impact of clearly changing weather patterns because of a warmer planet is happening in our face

Consensus or confrontational politics?

It was Sheila Dikshit's governance abilities, combined with persuasive powers and without angst without finger-pointing that helped transform Delhi

Tradition for water revolution

For years we have known the importance of harvesting water but have failed to utilise this knowledge

Fani's climate change fingerprint

What we need to understand is what Fani means in an increasingly climate-risked world

News that matters this election season

In this election, we have seen that the real issues that matter to people - climate change

Being the change

It is clear that our lifestyle has an impact on the environment. What we do and how we do it make a crucial difference

Inconvenient truth of climate change

What can we do as temperatures increase and weather changes to bring devastation in different parts of the world?

Renewable, yes, but what is the question?

Five years later, when we publish the 2019 State of Renewable Energy, much has changed and yet much remains the same

Cows, vigilantism, vegetarianism and farmers

We need to find ways to nurture this economy in which individual farmers benefit from the small-scale operation

Metro is about travel, not trip

Without a massively augmented public transport system, we cannot get the mobility transition that will take us off our private vehicles and without this we cannot get clean air or livable cities

Plastic fixits won't work

The first shock has come from studies that show that plastic generated on land is filling up and polluting our oceans

No 'ah hah' moment yet for electric vehicles: Incremental change won't work

Change on the ground is so minuscule that the reality of dirty energy and dirty vehicles swamps the little benefits

Why 'illegal' is the norm

This is the pollution story of not just Shiv Vihar, but of the many Shiv Vihars that exist in the country

Fighting for a share of the mind

In India, there are so many things that need to be done and all need to be done yesterday. How do you choose your priority?

E-vehicles or e-mobility?

The industry has had a road map for the transition to cleaner fuel but it either ignored the road map or whittled it down to make it weak