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Home > Posts by Bhargavi S. Rao

Salaam to Coal Miners of the Country

An unprecedented and prolonged heatwave is sweeping across the Indian subcontinent.

Read more May 4, 2022 at 11:15 am Bhargavi S. Rao

Reimagining Renewable Energy for this Earth Day

22nd April 2022 will be the 52nd year since the observation of  Earth Day. A day that marked the birth of the modern environment movement across the West in the back drop of protests against war...

Read more April 21, 2022 at 11:30 am Bhargavi S. Rao

An office memorandum, a committee, and lack of clear objectives mark Women’s Empowerment by MNRE

In yet another hasty, half-hearted, hallucinational, last minute tokenistic action to showcase something to the world, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy has issued an office memorandum on the 10th of March to...

Read more March 24, 2022 at 4:52 pm Bhargavi S. Rao

Gender and Energy

India’s commitments at the 26th Conference of Parties of the United Nations Convention on Climate Change (COP 26) held in Glasgow set clear targets for 2030: increasing non fossil fuel energy capacity to 500...

Read more February 28, 2022 at 2:29 pm Bhargavi S. Rao

A Failed Approach: Parliamentary Standing Committee Report on Energy

The Twenty First report of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Energy (2021-22) titled ‘FINANCIAL CONSTRAINTS IN RENEWABLE ENERGY SECTOR’ that was presented to Lok Sabha on February 03, 2022 Laid in Rajya Sabha on...

Read more February 23, 2022 at 12:30 pm Bhargavi S. Rao

Budget 2022: Plenty Parley, Paltry Provision!

In the key features of the Budget 2022 document, there is the mention of the terms energy transition and climate action twice. Particularly under the goals of the Amrit Kaal and the four priorities.

Read more February 22, 2022 at 1:26 pm Bhargavi S. Rao

Reminiscing an annotated page from my field notes

As we drove on the untarred road, passing through brick walls sparsely covered with cow dung cakes, we reached the village of Valluru. A rather sunny day in January 2019. It was here that...

Read more August 5, 2021 at 11:21 am Bhargavi S. Rao

Financing Ecosystem Restoration with Nature Based Solutions

It’s 5 decades since the UN General Assembly designated June 5th as World Environment Day, marking the first day of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment in 1972. And the first World Environment...

Read more June 5, 2021 at 7:41 am Bhargavi S. Rao

COVID-19: Why we must reorganise cities to deal with the third wave

As ambulances siren through streets and social media is filled with desperate pleas for beds, ICUs, oxygen and Remdesivir, phones keep ringing with news of relatives, friends and contacts falling sick and many losing...

Read more May 14, 2021 at 3:42 pm Bhargavi S. Rao

When the sun sets this year, a small village weeps

As the year comes to an end, the state of Karnataka feels proud of its renewable energy targets. And that it is on par with California when it comes to the generation and use...

Read more December 22, 2020 at 3:21 pm Bhargavi S. Rao

Where Do We Stand Five Years After the Paris Agreement?

India offers a case study for reducing greenhouse gas emissions It was five years ago this month, December 2015, when the globe’s nations came together in Paris to chart a path for addressing the...

Read more December 14, 2020 at 1:30 am Bhargavi S. Rao

Smart Cities: The need for a critical engagement

Cities are ever dynamic. The dynamic landscape of cities is a reflection, a miniature representation of societal interactions throughout history, static in its built forms and but constantly reinventing in contemporary ways of living....

Read more October 21, 2020 at 5:59 pm Bhargavi S. Rao

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The Hidden Environmental Costs of India’s Data Centre Push

Data centres are giant industrial collections of servers that store and process data underlying the modern information economy. Most...

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Private Investments in Highways Expected to Reach Rs 1 Trillion by FY29

The previous Infrastructure Finance Updates have covered reports from various sectors including roads, highways, airports, railroads, and real estate...

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