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Expert speak: Keep air clean to fight Covid-19
As India slowly reopens its economy, care must be taken so that increasing particulate matter pollution does not contribute to the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic
Focus back on millions displaced by climate disasters
The trail of destruction left by Cyclone Amphan in eastern India has once again highlighted inadequacies in dealing with climate disasters that displace millions of people every year
Covid-19 forces UN to delay climate summit by a year
Governments are expected to take stronger action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at the United Nations climate summit that is now postponed to November 2021
Covid-19 and climate action in India’s provinces
The collective efforts to contain the Covid-19 pandemic in India offer vital lessons that could inform science-based climate action strategies in various states
India must go green or perish
Despite the serial disasters of pandemic, cyclone and locust attack, India’s economic stimulus package continues with its inefficient short-term thinking, although there is no shortage of viable alternatives
Cyclone Amphan leaves behind broken houses, rotting fish
People in the Sundarbans wonder why they bother rebuilding when their land is being taken by the sea and their huts will fall down again in the next cyclone
Covid-19 pandemic: lessons for climate crisis
We have to invest in resilience-building measures, especially in health infrastructure, and weather and disease forecast systems, addressing training and adaptive capacity needs
Cyclone Amphan tears through Bengal, millions affected
The morning after the strongest cyclone ever to hit West Bengal shows tremendous destruction. There is still no news from much of Sundarbans
Cyclone Amphan rages amid pandemic, no space in shelters
In West Bengal, evacuees and people quarantined for possible coronavirus infections are crammed inside the same buildings because there are no other shelters
India lowers solar tariffs to favour local production
The federal government has reduced solar tariffs for central public sector companies to boost domestic production of photovoltaic cells and modules