CSTEP signed an MoU with the Seshadripuram Institute of Commerce and Management, Bangalore, on 15 February 2021.
Traditional agroforestry systems across South Asia have historically supported millions of smallholding farmers.
Power infrastructure, which includes assets for generation, transmission, and distribution of power, is vulnerable to manifestations of climate change.
Under the aegis of Prakash Javadekar, Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed by Institutes of Repute (IoRs), Urban Local Bodies, and State Pollution Control Boards on 26 March 2021 for the efficient implementation of National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) action plans in 120 non-attainment cities.
Globally, efforts are underway to prepare country-level climate strategies in the run-up to the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (UNFCCC COP26) at Glasgow in November this year.
Climate resilience is the ability to anticipate, absorb, accommodate, and recover from the effects of a potentially hazardous event.
India has to overcome several developmental challenges in the coming decades.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) sixth assessment report (AR6) of working group 1 — ‘The Physical Science Basis’ has reinforced our worst fears about the state of climate.
In his Independence Day address to the nation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi mentioned India spends over Rs 12 lakh crore on importing energy, and that domestic energy production will be a policy priority for the country.
The report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) confirms what we have known all along—the dynamics of climate are being rewritten irrevocably.
Thermal comfort is a fundamental need and should not be the privilege of the well-off.
The Sixth Assessment Report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projects intense heatwaves in India, with longer durations and at an increasing frequency.
With pressure mounting on countries including India to address climate change by shifting to clean technologies, the significance of electric mobility to counter emissions cannot be ruled out.
India must follow a three-fold strategy at the UN Climate Change conference.
In food, there is hope.
In line with strong emerging evidence on how air pollution affects human health, the World Health Organisation (WHO), in its latest guidelines, has recommended more stringent limits for all key air pollutants to protect populations worldwide.
