CSTEP is developing a comprehensive Nature-based Solutions (NbS) Feasibility Framework to enhance urban resilience against climate risks such as flooding, heatwaves, and storms.
The world has been witnessing a series of virus spillovers from wild species to humans.
India is highly dependent on the agriculture sector for its food security, and biodiversity loss leaves crops vulnerable to pests and diseases, thereby lowering yields.
World Environment Day, celebrated on June 5 every year, serves as a global call to action to address pressing environmental challenges.
Growing the bioeconomy in the Global South in a circular, sustainable way offers direct economic and environmental benefits, with the potential to capture the economic opportunity of bio-based products of bio-based products for food, feed waste products and energy estimated at USD 7.
Bengaluru, 16 April 2024: The Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy (CSTEP), a research-based think tank, in collaboration with the International Council for Circular Economy (ICCE), published a White Paper titled ‘Growing the circular bioeconomy, with a focus on the Global South’ and presented the findings at the World Circular Economy Forum (WCEF) 2024, held at Brussels, Belgium.
Sea level rise (SLR) has been recognised as the most serious global threat.
On 21 March, the Supreme Court, in a judgement regarding a public interest litigation (PIL) on protecting and conserving the critically endangered Great Indian Bustard (GIB), noted that people have a fundamental right to be free from the adverse effects of climate change.
Coastal urban ecosystems are under siege from climate change, rapid urbanisation, and environmental degradation.
Sand is an essential element in concrete and hence plays an important role in the construction and infrastructure industry in a modern economy.
Traditional agroforestry systems across South Asia have historically supported millions of smallholding farmers.
Land degradation as one of the mega drivers of loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services has affected billions globally, resulting in rampant loss of livelihoods and accelerated distress migration.
Land degradation, extending over 96 million hectares is a primary ecological issue for India that has resulted in catastrophic biodiversity loss and exacerbated extreme weather occurrences.
The embracing of rapid urbanisation for better lifestyles has led to mindless concretisation, proving to be one of the biggest threats to the outdoor temperature in cities.
Climate change is a universally urgent issue that impacts all nations, with interlinked consequences for economies, societies, and ecosystems.
Climate change brought on by fossil-fuel burning and greenhouse gas emissions has led to a steady increase in global temperatures.
