Coal mining banned in India’s Mahan forest Avik Roy March 25, 2015 Country, India, Tracking Campaigners claim victory after Ministry of Coal confirms a controversial coal block in sensitive forest will not be auctioned
Toxic Delhi: Earth’s most polluted city has no plan to cut emissions Avik Roy March 20, 2015 Country, INDCs, India, News & Briefs, Tracking India’s capital at “critical” moment say air quality experts, warning smog levels are taking years off citizens’ lives.
Modi to seek US backing for India clean energy development Avik Roy January 23, 2015 Asia, India, Tracking (Pic: White House/Flickr) Carbon cuts unlikely to be on agenda at key US-India meeting, but discussions will focus on access to green energy Like every other year New Delhi, the capital of India, has...
Bihar’s first all-solar village flickers to life Avik Roy September 11, 2014 Asia, India, Tracking Life has been transformed for the 2,400 residents of Dharnai in Bihar, India’s poorest state, as solar-power has brought them light after nearly 30 years with no electricity
The Modi wave and the changing climate politics Avik Roy May 22, 2014 Asia, India, Tracking May 16, 2014, will remain as a remarkable day in the history of India, and perhaps, for the pages of the history of world democracy. It was the day when the verdict of nearly 600 million Indians was announced...
Toddling off to a low carbon and green future Avik Roy May 7, 2014 Asia, India, Tracking Deforestation and forest degradation, through agricultural expansion, conversion to pasture-land, infrastructure development, destructive logging and fires account for nearly 20 per cent of global greenhouse...
DSDS 2014: Bridging the ‘Energy, Water and Food Security’ Nexus for Sustainable Development Farrukh Zaman February 16, 2014 Asia, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakastan, Tracking, United Kingdom Delhi Sustainable Development Summit (DSDS) has become a high-profile annual event that serves as an important platform for exchange of ideas on sustainable development.
CAUTION: Oily road ahead for Indian environment! Avik Roy January 3, 2014 India, Tracking (This article has appeared as an Op-ed at The Pioneer newspaper in India on December 31, 2013) In recent years, the Environment and Forests Ministry in India has taken its role in...
The road to Paris appears bumpy! Avik Roy December 6, 2013 Asia, COP19 - Warsaw Climate Change Conference, India, Tracking (This article has appeared as an Op-ed at The Pioneer newspaper in India on December 6, 2013) The United Nations climate change conference went into overtime this year with sleep-deprived negotiators and...
Global perspectives on the Warsaw outcomes (part 2) AAN Editors December 1, 2013 Africa & Middle East, Asia, Bahrain, China, COP19 - Warsaw Climate Change Conference, Fiji, India, Kenya, Nigeria, Philippines, Tracking, Uncategorized To better understand the implications of the outcomes of COP19 for diverse countries across the planet, the members of our team share their first reactions to the Warsaw climate decisions. See below for...
