Australia is burning: How global warming is linked to bushfires
While the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protests were”rightfully”burning up the country, another fire engulfed a continent-country. Usually on the margins of international news, Australia’s bushfires have been raging since September 2019 and engulfed massive swathes of this gigantic land, concentrating on the eastern
Fossil fuel fuels global warming and how they lie about it
In October last year, a damning report on the top 20 polluting firms in the world was released. As per an analysis by Richard Heede at the US-based Climate Accountability Institute, 20 fossil fuel companies are responsible for more than one-third of all
Why climate apartheid will be catastrophic and why you should care
Recently, the term ‘climate apartheid’ made the rounds of both traditional mass media and social media. A new report by Philip Alston, the UN’s special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, was presented to the UN Human Rights Council in end June.
BJP’s environmental policies: What was and what could be
With the BJP-led NDA government winning a huge mandate to rule the country for the next five years, it’s a good time to take stock of their existing and expected environmental policies, including on climate change. Irrespective of where one stands on the
CSR and the environment ministry – are they in lockstep?
With CSR becoming the norm for all medium- to large-scale companies, private and public, CSR causes and fields have also expanded substantially. This means that companies are now doing work that was hitherto the exclusive domain of governments or, in many cases, collaborating
Let’s talk about mental health: Numbers, organisations, and gaps
With a population that is slowly becoming aware of the importance of physical health (blame it on the air pollution), there’s another aspect of a person’s overall health that hasn’t received the same attention in India. Mental health is as important as physical
The new green revolution – and the countries leading it
With many countries scrambling to beat the ticking clock that is global warming and adhere to the (admittedly non-binding) Paris Agreement, there has been encouraging news on clean energy of late with renewables gradually becoming the new normal. While CB previously took a
The climate-change proposals that deserve a place in Elections 2019
Elections 2019 is happening right now, in a flurry of rallies, speeches, promises, mudslinging matches, and competing manifestoes. Expectedly, the two most-talked-about manifestoes belong to the two biggest political parties of the country. While the Congress’ well-received (by the liberal establishment) manifesto tried
Inconvenient truths: Harassment and discrimination in the development sector
Current discussions and debates on social issues related to race, caste, gender and religion in progressive circles have somehow managed to trickle into popular discourse. This means that even as many people are railing against the ‘revised’ norms of what is considered as
CSR by PSUs: The ‘statue of disunity’ and the statute of wasteful expenditure
Aside from being the world’s largest democracy and (currently) the country with the second highest number of poor people, India can now also claim to have the tallest statue in the world – the Statue of Unity, or the Sardar Patel statue as