Asia-Pacific Disaster Report 2019
The Asia-Pacific region faces a daunting spectrum of natural hazards. Indeed, many countries could be reaching a tipping point beyond which disaster risk, fuelled by climate change, exceeds their capacity
India
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Silver Bullet: Are Solar Pumps a Panacea for Irrigation, Farmer Distress and Discom Losses?
Solar-powered irrigation is being aggressively promoted by the government as an affordable and sustainable solution for agriculture as well as the rising burden of electricity subsidy. But will solar pumps
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Hunger strike::the climate and food vulnerability index
The Climate and Food Vulnerability Index shows how the countries most impacted by food insecurity are the least responsible for the climate change which drives it. The top 10 most insecure countries
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Aspiration Index 2019
Indians are clear about aspirations and their preparedness to achieve them, finds the BankBazaar Aspiration Index report. The study covered 1,828 respondents across 12 cities. Here are more findings from
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Order of the Supreme Court regarding environmental norms of NOx for coal based thermal power plants, 05/08/2019
<p>Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of M. C. Mehta Vs Union of India & Others dated 05/08/2019 regarding environmental norms of NOx for coal based thermal power plants (TPPs).</p>
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Conserving wetlands in the Ganga basin
Wetlands are one of the most crucial sources of freshwater and one of the most productive ecosystems on the planet. The Gangetic wetlands are the largest riverine wetland system in India. National Mission
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From fome zero to zero hunger: a global perspective
Hunger is on the rise again in the world after a decade of decline. Hunger not only cruelly affects the well-being of people, it also undermines national development prospects of any kind. It erodes human
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Inaction is BlackRock’s biggest risk during the energy transition: still lagging in sustainable investing leadership
BlackRock, the world’s largest fund manager with US$6.5 trillion of assets under management – bigger in value than the third largest economy in the world – continues to ignore the serious financial risks
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India's energy transition: the cost of meeting air pollution standards in the coal-fired electricity sector
In 2015, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change legislated new standards to limit the concentration of sulphur oxides (SOx), nitrogen oxides (NOx), particulate matter (PM) and mercury (Hg)
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Mapping policy for solar irrigation across the water-energy-food (WEF) nexus in India
This paper seeks to assist policy-makers and researchers in India who are working to promote the uptake of off-grid, solar-powered pumps for groundwater irrigation. It begins by setting out key WEF linkages
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Linking farmers to futures market in India
Currently, farmers’ share in the overall agri-futures trading in India is negligible. There could be several factors behind this ranging from their lack of understanding how futures markets work to constraints