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Climate change: the case for hope

The core problems driving climate change are not going to disappear, but both the sense of danger and a strategy based on hope for peaceful change are necessary to create a better world

For those of us who grew up in the 1980s, the threat of global nuclear annihilation was a constant feature of media discourse. When the classic movie on the topic, Dr Strangelove, was made…Read More

Trump hesitates over global climate deal

Even as aides of US President Donald Trump postpone decision on whether to stay in the Paris climate deal, the head of UN Framework Convention on Climate Change says a way has to be found to bring all countries together

The deferred Trump administration meeting means the global climate community continues to live in uncertainty about what the US will do…Read More

India’s food-water-energy nexus: disaster or opportunity?

Overuse of water for irrigation is taking India towards disaster, but new technologies provide opportunities to reverse the trend

To escape the disaster being caused by the water-food-energy nexus, India must rapidly deploy new solutions, enhance its own innovation for its monsoon-specific agricultural system, and develop nimble policies…Read More

India’s farm fires poison air over South Asia

Latest satellite images released by NASA show widespread burning of crop residue across India that is releasing an enormous amount of noxious carbon dioxide in the air over the southern Asian landmass

Even as India attempts to grapple with increasing air pollution in its cities, fires started by farmers across the country on crop residues are adding massively to the carbon dioxide load over South Asia…Read More

Renewables drive creative destruction of energy landscape

India’s energy sector seems to have veered decisively towards solar and wind power as tariffs tumble and investment pour in, but experts fear developers could be punching above their weight

Tariffs in the Indian renewables sector are in free fall and the appetite of private developers to secure large, grid-connected solar and wind power projects shows no signs of slackening…Read More