More Than a Delayed Monsoon
India’s southwest monsoon has entered the season on a worrying note, with rainfall running 35% below normal and central India recording a deficit of 63%. While June rainfall shortages are not uncommon, the current...
Petrochemical boom in Budget 2026: Fossil lock-in amid climate crisis
INDIA’S 2025 was a year of unrelenting climate catastrophe. Extreme climatic events battered the country on 99 per cent of days from January to November, devastating 17.4 million hectare of crops and claiming over...
Barking up the wrong tree : A critique of the misdirected and wasteful push for Carbon Capture in the Budget
The still rising global green house gases emissions
Why India’s Budget Must Wear a Climate Lens
Climate emergency is simultaneously also the crisis of labour and livelihood, health and agriculture and biodiversity, and a direct outcome of our industrial and infrastructural development. The climate emergency is live. As smog, debris,...
चरम मौसम की घटनाएं जानलेवा साबित हो रहा है
भारत में चरम मौसम (एक्स्ट्रीम वेदर ) तेजी से बढ़ रहे हैं और अब यह केवल मौसमी उतार–चढ़ाव नहीं, बल्कि जीवन और आजीविका के लिए गंभीर खतरा बन चुके हैं। हीटवेव, बाढ़, चक्रवात, सूखा,...
Extreme Weather, Unequal Impact: India’s Growing Divide | Editorial | Finance Matters, 21 November 2025
India’s growing climate crisis is now impossible to overlook. A new Climate Risk Index by Germanwatch ranks India ninth among the countries most severely affected by extreme weather in the last 30 years. In...
Who Benefits from RBI’s Reforms? | Finance Matters, 27 June 2025 | Editorial
The Reserve Bank of India’s latest economic review paints a mixed picture. On the surface, India’s growth appears strong, among the highest globally, with inflation easing and agriculture performing well. But beneath this headline...
प्लास्टिक प्रदूषण – एक जानलेवा संकट
आधुनिक विकास के नाम पर जिन ‘भस्मासुरों’ को बनाया, बढ़ाया जा रहा है, प्लास्टिक उनमें से एक है। कुल-जमा सौ-सवा सौ साल पहले ईजाद किया गया यह कारनामा आज प्रकृति-पर्यावरण और इंसानों के अस्तित्व...
The Widening Gap Between the Ultra-Rich and the Struggling Majority | Finance Matters, 28 February 2025 | Editorial
The latest Indus Valley report in fact shows that India’s consuming class is today just a thin layer of 10% and this section is only deepening, not widening. While people from the bottom 90%...
जलवायु परिवर्तन संकट में ताप विद्युत संयंत्रों की भूमिका
जलवायु परिवर्तन का संकट तो वैश्विक समस्या है। जिसके कई कारण हैं, जैसे कि जीवाश्म ईंधनों (कोयला,तेल और गैस) का जलना, वनों की कटाई और कृषि। वनों की कटाई विकास परियोजनाओं, कृषि विस्तार और...
जलवायु लक्ष्य व जस्ट ट्रांजिशन के लिए घातक साबित हो रहे हैं गुजरात के पेट्रोकेमिकल उद्योग
प्लास्टिक समेत अन्य पेट्रोकेमिकल उत्पादन से अंत तक की यात्रा में बड़ी मात्रा में ग्रीन हाउस गैसों का उत्सर्जन करते हैं|
Fossil Fuel and Chemical Industries Registered More Lobbyists at Plastics Treaty Talks than 70 Countries Combined
143 fossil fuel and chemical industry lobbyists have registered to attend the third session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-3) to advance a global plastics treaty, gaining access to the negotiations at a time...
A Statement sans Solutions: India’s G20 Presidency and Its Outcome
The 18th G20 Leaders’ Summit, under India’s Presidency, concluded with the adoption of the New Delhi Declaration. In the backdrop of the war in Ukraine and a “new cold war” between the US and...
To tackle the climate crisis, address inequality
Every morning, when we turn the pages of the newspaper, we get a glimpse of a rather grim future.we turn the pages of the newspaper, we get a glimpse of a rather grim future....
How the financial institutions are accomplices in Joshimath disaster | THE MONEY TRAIL
Warnings, protests, resignations and court cases have played out right before our eyes since the 1990s. But everybody acts surprised as the Joshimath town sinks.
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