Important Editorials on Environment
[Environment] Urban Flood – The new normal ?
Background: – Urban flooding is a problem long associated with Mumbai. With a steady increase in the occurrence and severity of extreme weather events, Mumbai [...]
[Environment] Ban on Single Use Plastics
Background:- The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India, notified the Plastic Waste Management Amendment Rules, 2021 on August 12, 2021. In [...]
[Environment] Earth Overshoot Day 2022
Context:- Earth Over Shoot Day 2022 If the citizens of the world lived like those of the United States, the resources of more than five [...]
[Environment] India at the Bottom – Is the Environmental Performance Index really faulty?
Context:- Last month, India protested against its ranking on the Environmental Performance Index (EPI) of 2022, prepared by researchers at the Yale and Columbia Universities in [...]
Concept: Sustainable Development – Tracing the roots !!!
The “official” definition of sustainable development was developed for the first time in the Brundtland Report in 1987. Sustainable development is the idea that human societies must [...]
COP 26 and India’s Climate pledge
In a surprise move at COP26 in Glasgow, Prime Minister of India announced that India will commit to ambitious, enhanced climate targets and cuts in [...]
[Environment]Development vs Conservation<>Railway vs Wildlife
The world is pursuing a path of liberalisation, privatisation and globalisation, keys to human development. India is walking the same track, targeting a five trillion [...]
[Environment] Chipko Movement
Sunderlal Bahuguna with his wife, Vimla […]
[Environment] IPCC Report-“Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis”
Context The recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the Working Group I contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), titled ‘Climate Change [...]
[Environment] Plastic Waste Management Amendment Rules
Context:- The Plastic Waste Management Amendment Rules notified by the Centre on August 12 acknowledge the gravity of pollution caused by plastic articles of everyday [...]
Afghanistan’s centuries-old ‘Karez’ system of irrigation
The resurgent Taliban is on the victory march to Kabul. It has already taken provincial capitals as well as Afghanistan’s third-largest city of Herat. As [...]
[Environment] IPCC and the Science, Politics and Economy around Climate Change
Context Earlier this week the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reported on climate science, warning against the folly of a business-as-usual development model. Past [...]
EU’s Fit for 55 and Indian industry
European Union introduced new legislation, Fit for 55, to cut its GHG emissions by 55 per cent by 2030 and to net zero by 2050. [...]
India’s Solar Salvation
As India’s economy and population continue to grow, so too does its demand for energy. India is also particularly vulnerable to climate change. Solar power [...]
[Environment] Beat the climate crisis by investing in nature
In Paris in 2015, leaders from 192 nations committed to limit the increase of global average temperatures since pre-industrial levels to well below 2°C, while [...]
Ganga and Microplastics
The Ganga might have stood witness to many stages of India’s civilisation, as Mahatma Gandhi once noted, but in recent decades it has become a [...]
South Asia lightning Report ,2020
Important Points 1. According to South Asia lightning Report ,2020 by Earth Networks, a global weather intelligence agency -West Bengal received the highest number of lightning [...]
Gross Environment Product in Uttarakhand
Context The Uttarakhand government recently announced it will initiate valuation of its natural resources in the form of ‘Gross Environment Product’ (GEP), said to be [...]