The latest rounds of severe heat waves, floods and storms brought to focus the severity of the looming climate crisis and the urgency of a wide variety of necessary climate actions.
In its NDC (Nationally Determined Contribution) submission in October 2015for the UNFCCC Paris Agreement (December 2015) on climate change, the Indian government had pledged that 40% of its
It is the duty of the Union Government which collects GST from every citizen to deliver electricity at affordable prices to the remotest parts of the country and reach out to the most disadvantaged...
A POLICY, ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL PERSPECTIVE Over the last few decades, the volume and toxicity of waste being produced in India have been increasing exponentially. A major cause has been the increased use and...
In early August, the Union Cabinet approved IndiaтАЩs updated Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) that have hence been formally communicated to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). These include goals like reducing the emission intensity...
From the Prime Minister to the Supreme Court, there seems to be consensus against freebies. Free or subsidised food grains, electricity or health care for the poor has suddenly become the root cause of...
Dropping the Electricity Amendment Bill was one of the conditions for withdrawing the farmerтАЩs struggle. Yet the government is bringing it back. Filled with a bunch of dangerous proposals, the bill will shut shop...
Data centres are giant industrial collections of servers that store and process data underlying the modern information economy. Most policies concerning the installation, use and maintenance of data centres ignore an important aspect: their...
Lack of access to clean energy is a major challenge among the marginalised and vulnerable sections of the population, both in rural and urban areas across the country. Migrant workers, construction workers, and a...