climate change and sustainable development

ESG reporting: Climate change, state emergency and stakeholder pursuit

The top climate change risks are converging, making environmental stewardship pivotal to planet sustainability, and global ESG action becoming the bulwark against massive direct impact. Read more »
Income inequality and multidimensional poverty in India

Climate change: IPCC warns of looming water crisis

Climate change and the increase in global temperature will trigger changes in the planet’s water cycle -- wet regions will get wetter and arid areas will face droughts. Read more »
tough task to meet climate change targets

World may miss climate change targets; IPCC for damage control

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has called for drastic reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in the current decade to stop a climate breakdown. Read more »
global warming and methane emissions

Challenges to India’s Arctic policy amid great power rivalry

As the Arctic geopolitics has recently witnessed growing big power involvement and rivalry, India’s Arctic Policy has both challenges and limitations. Read more »
Kerala economy struggling under Covid-19 impact

Kerala’s Coastal Zone Management Plan 2019 raises anxieties – old and new

Participation of communities and local self-governments, scientific studies, and political will are needed for framing a successful Coastal Zone Management Plan for Kerala. Read more »
g7 summit's green belt and road initiative

G7 to launch ‘green belt and road’ plan to counter China

The green belt and road initiative by the G7 summit is seen as an effort by the Western powers to retain world leadership in an era of increasing Chinese influence. Read more »
climate change causing extreme weather events

Climate change tipping points warn against slow progress

Climate change will not destroy the world even if humanity failed to achieve emission targets, but long-term climate shifts could have disastrous consequences to agriculture and food security. Read more »
Climate change, sea level rise

Climate summit 2021: Economics may trump ethics, environment

World leaders must ensure that the Climate Summit 2021 hosted by the Joe Biden administration do not meet the same fate as the earlier attempts such as the Kyoto Protocol and Paris... Read more »
climate change and the record-breaking heatwave

Sustainable development: ESG debates must enter classrooms, mass media

Capital, human capital and social capital have to come together for impactful ESG outcomes. Read more »
flash flood in Rishiganga and Dhauliganga rivers of Uttarakhand

Uttarakhand flash flood: Study identifies causes, issues stern warning

A study says better monitoring and an early warning system could have reduced human losses in the flash flood in Rishiganga and Dhauliganga rivers of Uttarakhand. Read more »