Sunita Narain

The clean air challenge: Delhi braces for worsening pollution this season

GRAP has become the only time we act, which, obviously, is too little and too late

Ratan Tata: An environmentalist's homage to India's business icon

As we mourn the demise of Ratan Tata, let's also mourn the passing of the time when business leaders like him ruled our world, when values of frugality and simplicity in personal life were cherished

Wayanad tragedy: Who is responsible for the heart-breaking landslides?

In this age of climate change, the lessons from Wayanad are clear: Learn and change, or perish

Air pollution is a great equaliser

In 2019, the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) launched the National Clean Air Programme (NCAP), as it is called, to fix the air quality of our cities

A matter of life and death

Climate change will throw at us many such surprises in terms of impact on human health. Even now, this science is not understood

Agenda in the time of climate change

This is the time for change; for society to build green because it is inclusive; to build growth, because it is sustainable

New economy, old habits

There is no doubt that the world needs to move with speed and at scale. But what will be the business model that we take to the new green world?

Bengaluru's story today; your city's tomorrow

Every drop can be used for the coming period of scarcity. Then it can do its sewage differently

Rethink the way we grow food

The fact is that the European farming system, which epitomises modern agriculture as we know it today, has survived only because of massive subsidy

Trade rules for the planet and people

The Indian government has announced fiscal incentives for solar cell and module manufacture and imposed higher import duties on Chinese products

ATM agriculture requires imagination

In this agriculture, conventional science is turned upside down

COP 28: Changing the narrative

Targeting coal means shifting the burden of the transition to countries that cannot afford even dirty energy to meet the needs of their people

Dark underbelly of carbon trade

World leaders need to learn from the mistakes of the voluntary carbon market so that this new market mechanism does not repeat them

Triple jeopardy in health

This is not all. Not only are we not conserving the existing stock of medicines, the drug pipeline for new antibiotics is drying up, or has done so already

The impact of food on climate

The problem is that there are two distinct agricultural worlds

Thus begins our season of despair

We must not slip into believing that fixing this mess is beyond our control. Then there is no way ahead. This would be the ultimate tragedy

Climate change: It's all about money

Down to earth

Our population question

There is no doubt that more people will need more resources to survive. But it cannot be argued that population growth is an indicator of the resultant environmental degradation

Reinvent tiger conservation

The new conservation agenda should not revolve around tiger versus tribal

Getting out of fossils

Unless finances are proportionate to the need, the transition to clean energy is a tough proposition, especially in countries where energy affordability is critical