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Home > Posts by Soumya Dutta

With the Earth’s Life Support Systems in Peril :Fossil fuel financing continues unabated.

The news was flashed all across world’s media – the year 2023 was not only the warmest year on instrumented records (available for about the past 170 years), but was calculated to be the...

Read more November 14, 2024 at 5:28 pm Soumya Dutta

Climate Crisis and India’s Renewable Electricity Targets 2030: Can these be achieved with no major land conflicts?  

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.

Read more June 14, 2024 at 4:30 pm Soumya Dutta

India’s Renewable Electricity pledges: Faltering and slow progress

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

Read more May 8, 2024 at 6:58 pm Soumya Dutta

Climate Change and Energy: Challenges for a Just Transition

By now, there is an almost universal consensus that the world energy systems must move away from climate-threatening fossil fuels and into non-carbon, safe, and sustainable sources.

Read more May 18, 2023 at 11:56 am Soumya Dutta

Countries using Energy Security as an excuse to not take Climate Action

The term ‘energy security’ has become popular again after February 2022 when Russian troops invaded Ukraine and the subsequent events.

Read more April 12, 2023 at 3:57 pm Soumya Dutta

Fukushima, Chernobyl, Three-Mile Island and more; the case against disastrous Nuclear-fission power as India’s energy source

In this period of ever-increasing Climate Crisis, when many voices pushing nuclear fission power as a supposedly zero-carbon safe’ energy are being heard, it is fitting to remember some of the catastrophic disasters of...

Read more March 17, 2023 at 12:08 pm Soumya Dutta

Energy profile of G20 countries: are they compliant with necessary Climate actions?

In recent times, wherever one travels in India, and in all big cities, one is bombarded with the message on the lines that “India under Modi rule has become so great that the G20,...

Read more February 8, 2023 at 4:00 pm Soumya Dutta

A very brief report of major points of outcomes and disappointments of COP-27

Soumya Dutta traveled to Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, to participate in the 27th Conference of Parties (COP-27) of the UNFCCC. Along with participating in a host of meetings & public protests and speaking with...

Read more December 2, 2022 at 3:28 pm Soumya Dutta

India’s Climate Action Pledges at Paris COP21 (NDC) and Glasgow COP26: What are these, how far have we come and what needs to improve?

A Briefing Paper IPCC report: ‘now or never’ if the world is to stave off climate disaster.  “Greenhouse gas emissions must peak by 2025 (and reduce by over 45% by 2030), say climate scientists in...

Read more November 1, 2022 at 4:12 pm Soumya Dutta

The Great Indian Power Crisis

The power crisis, triggered by the coal shortage, has been in the news for the past few months. Almost the whole of India was caught in a serious power crisis from early May 2022.

Read more June 25, 2022 at 1:40 pm Soumya Dutta

India’s Renewable Energy Promise at the COP-26 in Glasgow

One of the most important climate summits under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the CoP-26 recently took place in the Scottish city of Glasgow in United Kingdom. 

Read more February 22, 2022 at 5:25 pm Soumya Dutta

The Great Indian Climate Gimmick!

The union budget 2021-22 was placed in the parliament a few days ago. Taking a quick look at its Environment & Climate provisions, here is a brief snapshot of the DISMAL picture of the...

Read more February 5, 2021 at 6:11 pm Soumya Dutta

A Bill that is Badly Timed, Mal-Directed and Devoid of Basics

Any Act or bill to get an act on electricity (or the larger issues of primary energy), has to first comprehend the basic functions electricity has in human society. Presumably, some form of electricity might...

Read more April 30, 2020 at 7:13 pm Soumya Dutta

Pre Budget Musings

Starting with GDP, in the 2nd quarter of 2019-20 the real Gross Domestic Product (adjusted on base year price) of the country has been recorded at 4.5%, which is the lowest in last 6...

Read more January 30, 2020 at 4:04 pm Soumya Dutta

Emerging Landscape of Global Climate Finance

The concept of climate finance originated from the need for financing both the Mitigation (reducing the root cause of Climate Crisis, greenhouse Gas emissions) as well as Adaptation (building resilience in countries, societies, communities...

Read more December 11, 2019 at 7:12 am Soumya Dutta
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