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ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES

COP29: The $300 billion climate finance deal is an optical illusion

Rich nations’ measly offer amounts to a 1.2 per cent real increase over previous commitments. In effect, it’s a walkout from global climate efforts.
C.P. Chandrasekhar
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Kuldip Singh (1932-2024): The judge who made polluters pay

He wielded the law to shield India’s rivers, forests, and monuments from industrial destruction and created precedents that guard our ecology today.
Sanjay Hegde
The State of the World’s Children 2024 

Children in India among most vulnerable to climate change risks: UNICEF

They will make up the world’s largest child population by 2050, with 350 million of them inheriting an increasingly unstable planet.
Vitasta Kaul
Air Pollution

Delhi smog hits highest level this year

Levels of microparticles is well over recommended limits in the city, schools have been ordered to hold classes online.
Deutsche Welle

More stories from Environment

Maladaptation has been discussed as part of negotiations on the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA) at COP29.

‘Maladaptation’ fears might end up blocking climate funds for poor nations

Overly strict definitions of failed climate adaptation can potentially prevent vital projects in developing countries from getting financial support.
Rishika Pardikar
The Great Banyan tree, spread over 1.5 hectares with more than 2,800 prop roots, is one of the biggest attractions of the Indian botanical garden in Howrah, West Bengal.

Paradise in Peril: India’s great banyan garden fights for survival

The Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden, a living heritage site, is in desperate need of funds to sustain itself.
Soumitra Das
On the front pages of some of Britain’s national newspapers about the re-election of US President-elect Donald Trump, on November 7, 2024. After Trump’s big win, end-of-the-world scenarios continue to be drawn about what his victory will mean for climate issues.

The tunnel vision that resulted in Donald Trump

Americans are so divided that a single sacred value—be it free speech, politeness, or climate action—blinds them to all other concerns.
Raghu Murtugudde
Forest officials carry a tranquillised leopard that had taken shelter in a construction site.

India sees spike in deadly leopard attacks with rising human encroachment on animal habitats

Conservationists say understanding the behaviour of the big cats is key to coexistence.
Deutsche Welle
NTPC Vindhyachal is India’s biggest power plant. It released about 25 million tonnes of carbon dioxide in 2022, placing it in the top 10 of global polluters, according to satellite data from Climate Trace.

The energy capital powering India and poisoning its residents

India’s super-polluter Vindhyachal plant experiments with carbon capture, but trial fails to appease local coal concerns.
Reuters
A new study estimates that electronic waste (e-waste) created from generative AI data centers could rise to 5 million tons per year by 2030.

E-waste from AI computers could ‘escalate beyond control’: study

Researchers predicting a 1,000-fold increase in such e-waste by 2030 have called for recycling strategies to reduce environmental impact.
Deutsche Welle
The Hoolock gibbon, India’s only ape species, is found in the Hollongapar Gibbon Sanctuary in Jorhat district, Assam.

Vedanta’s oil exploration plan threatens Assam’s last gibbon sanctuary

Modi government’s new policy lets Cairn Oil & Gas advance Rs.264 crore project near Hollongapar reserve, while wildlife board demands inspection.
Ayaskant Das
The houses that were demolished on October 1 at Shankar Nagar along the Musi in Hyderabad. Its residents were relocated to two-bedroom slum resettlement buildings in Pilligudiselu, 2 km away.

When did Musi beautification become about erasing the poor?

Telangana’s ambitious Rs.1.5 lakh crore riverfront project starts with evictions and demolitions in old Hyderabad; detailed plans remain under wraps.
Ayesha Minhaz
Trucks lined up outside the Bandhwari landfill carrying unsegregated waste.

A sacred forest dies in Gurugram as Bandhwari landfill’s toxic waste breaches Aravalli sanctuary

Despite Swachh Bharat Mission’s giant promises, 1,600 tonnes of unsegregated waste continues to poison groundwater in villages near Mangarbani forest.
Shubhangi Derhgawen,Deepanshu Mohan

The hungry river

The people of the Samserganj region in Murshidabad face a bleak future as the river Ganga continues to ruin their homes and hopes.
Frontline News Desk
India Gate shrouded in smog as air quality deteriorates in New Delhi, on October 22, 2024.

Will drones, artificial rain help Delhi breathe this winter?

The capital’s air quality index plummets to “very poor” as the government launches a Winter Action Plan.
Vedaant Lakhera,Vitasta Kaul
Environment and climate change activists take part in a demonstration in connection to the ongoing Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, in Manila on October 15, 2024.

Our planet’s future hinges on seeing sustainability as a win-win for all

It should be a non-zero-sum game. Climate actions must create benefits for all, rather than advantages for some at the expense of others.
Raghu Murtugudde
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