by Pooja | Jul 5, 2021 | News
China’s Belt and Road Initiative has become almost synonymous with debt trap diplomacy. It’s a half-baked idea that created grounds for unfounded speculation. Many in South Asia view major foreign powers (like China) and changes in status quo (like new economic...
by Pooja | Jul 5, 2021 | News
In recent days, as Western Canada and the United States have been broiling under a climate-fuelled heat crisis, all sorts of superlatives have been used to describe never-before-seen temperatures: the British Columbia community of Lytton hit a mind-boggling 49.5...
by Pooja | Jul 5, 2021 | News
The latest report from Carbon Tracker reveals a future in which the investment in coal power plants is deemed economically and environmentally unviable, and five Asian countries are poised to suffer great economic losses with their plans to hang on to dirty energy....
by Pooja | Jul 3, 2021 | News
The UN’s flagship climate finance initiative was gripped by a dispute this week over what a project to cope with the impacts of climate change looks like – and who gets to decide. Tensions rose during the online board meeting of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) after only...
by Pooja | Jul 3, 2021 | News
“Being the ‘National Green Tribunal’, the NGT must have some alacrity and concern for the environment!”, observed Justice D. Y. Chandrachud on Thursday. The bench of Justices Chandrachud and M. R. Shah was considering an appeal arising out of...
by Pooja | Jul 3, 2021 | News
The tiny Pacific nation of Nauru has created shockwaves by demanding that the rules for deep sea mining are agreed in the next two years. Environmental groups warn that this will lead to a destructive rush on the mineral-rich seabed “nodules” that are...
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