An Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad (IIM-A) note on IIM-A representing India in the FABLE consortium, which mobilises top knowledge institutions from 20 countries to support ways to achieve sustainable food and land use systems for achieving climate change goals: Operating as part of the Food and Land Use Coalition, the Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land-Use, and … Continue reading Pathways for India for raising climate ambition, biodiversity protection, sustainable development
Category: Environment
Power Policy Analyst Shankar Sharma’s letter to Dr Rajiv Kumar, Vice Chairman, NITI Aayog, New Delhi, with copy to Prakash Javadekar, MoEF&CC; Dr Harshvardhan, Union Minister for Health & Family Welfare; Dr Jitendra Singh, MoS, PMO; and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the subject, “Is India a top performer on climate mitigation? Ground realities”: Greetings … Continue reading India’s high GHG emission a consequence of over-exploitation of natural resources
By Avideep Gabhawala* Last December while randomly browsing shelves of the campus library I came across Edward Goldsmith’s “The Way & Gregory” Bateson’s “Steps to an Ecology of Mind”, among other books on ecology. Like so many of my generation, numbed by the constant discourse in media and uninspiring school subjects followed by wider societal … Continue reading Ecological crisis: Radical global bottoms-up movement need of the hour
By Pulkit Sachan* Water is the most widely available resource on the planet, the story for clean water is however poles apart. The current water crisis evolved post industrialization era, when humans’ civilizations started putting more pressure on water resources than they can handle. And now we are on the verge of acute water shortage … Continue reading Whither India’s water harvesting, groundwater recharge plans?
By Nishant Jee* Am I doing my part in protecting the environment? Am I entirely aware of how to do the required? Are the government's policies in favour of the protection of the environment or corporate-driven? Is media bringing the relevant environmental issues in front of me? These are just a few questions, and there … Continue reading Environmental protection: individual efforts must accompany collective endeavour
By Akshay Verma* "Climate change is posing one of the greatest threats to our existence on the planet Earth. It is real, and we need to panic." It has already been five years since 196 countries signed Paris Agreement, but we are still miles away from the target of limiting global warming to well below … Continue reading Tackling climate change monster: Policy reforms must accompany change in social behaviour
By Rakesh Roshan* In the land where people worship nature and treat plants, trees, animals, and rivers as Gods and Goddesses, India performs abysmally low on environmental indicators. India is the second most polluted country after China. Moreover, 21 out of 30 cities around the world with the worst air quality are in India (Regan, … Continue reading Why India performs abysmally low on environmental indicators
