The air pollution crisis in India can only be solved through sustained political commitment, and robust institutions. Letting the ordinance lapse reflects poorly on the Centre’s commitment, and is a significant blow to the development of air quality governance in the country.
Read MoreIn a recently edited volume entitled Comparative Climate Change Litigation: Beyond the Usual Suspects, Shibani Ghosh authors a chapter where she reviews the potential hooks in the legal and regulatory framework for climate litigation in India.
Read MoreThere has been a longstanding divide between IAS officers and engineers on disparities in pay, perks, and promotions. Restructuring in the electricity sector has only heightened these tensions to create hostility and mistrust. This blog explores the power struggle between IAS officers, engineers, and the government in the electricity sector.
Read MoreKathryn Hochstetler’s new book Political Economies of Energy Transition: Wind and Solar Power in Brazil and South Africa pries open the hidden political world of the transition.
Read MoreIndia has always argued that climate is linked to development choices, livelihoods and equity. Don’t ask activists to narrow down their concerns.
Read MoreStates making net zero commitments throws open the possibility of new institutions that quickly funnel economies into low-carbon trajectories. So could these carbon regulators become the central banks of the future?
Read MoreIn 2019, air pollution was responsible for over 16.7 lakh deaths in India, more than ten times the lives lost due to COVID-19 so far. Did the budget address clean air adequately?
Read MoreThe benchmark of credibility for country contributions is whether they include a ‘net-zero’ target. As an important player in global climate politics should India, then, also consider a net-zero target?
Read More2021 marks the beginning of the fourth decade of ongoing electricity reforms in India. We reflect on what we learnt over three decades of interventions to fix electricity problems, and suggest priorities for the fourth decade.
Read MoreThere is a strong belief that WFH will be the new norm in a post-COVID world. How large (if any) are the energy impacts of widespread adoption of WFH in India?
Read MoreHighlights from IEA’s latest report that charts out different outlooks of India’s energy future.
Read MoreHow does the Budget for 2021-22 address environmental concerns amidst the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic?
Read MoreHighlights from the Global Climate Litigation Report released by UNEP, which showed increase in prevalence and success of climate-related cases around the world in the last three years.
Read MoreNew paper published in Nature Climate Change highlights increased risk of flooding in South India due to climate change.
Read MoreCPR-ICEE picks the major climate, energy and environment stories of 2020 and what to look forward to in the new year.
Read MoreA legal precedent that concretises links between air pollution and premature death and what this could mean for India’s air pollution discourse.
Read MoreIf governments were to raise awareness and disseminate information on air pollution the way they have done with COVID-19, what might that look like?
Read MoreThe annual November smog in the NCR frames the air pollution crisis — its scale, sources and solutions — in ways that undermine the long-term efforts needed.
Read MoreIs the new CAQM the answer to the pleas of National Capital Region (NCR) citizens and an end to the winter airpocalypse?
Read MoreThere is a crying need to overhaul the environmental clearance system. But the Ministry’s proposal fails to acknowledge the grave ecological crises that the country is facing.
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