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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.
Climate change, we can emphatically say, is a wicked problem
A clean-up is essential. But for this, India's power sector must also come clean. Companies need to voluntarily share data. It was India's largest power generator, NTPC, that refused public scrutiny
We must also realise that even as environmental problems have grown, the institutions for the oversight and management of natural resources have shrunk
The easiest way to clear air pollution is to not know how bad it is - this is what India practices
The United States has legalised lack of ambition or inequity of action. We can call this a 'win' for developing countries or for our heating planet, only if we are delusional
The Indian government has to put forward a counter-proposal on how to operationalise equity. Otherwise, equity is only for blocking consensus; empty words being banged on noisy pans
It is a fact that our food is getting to be unhealthy - not because of deliberate adulteration, but because we are choosing to produce it in unsafe ways. The fact also is that in India we still have a