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  • The clean environment we’re enjoying currently will only be short term, without fundamental changes

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    Times of India

    The clean environment we’re enjoying currently will only be short term, without fundamental changes

    Pandemics and environment have a close relation. Throughout history epidemics have caused large scale deaths, reducing human influence on the environment. Europe’s Black Death, which killed about 20 million people during 1347-1351, led to a drastic reduction in toxic lead pollution in the air for the first time in over [...]

  • India must change its testing strategy

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    Financial Express

    India must change its testing strategy

    In a war, you don’t only use your best weapons, you use everything in your arsenal. This has to be the maxim in our fight against Covid-19.

  • Zoonotic diseases are rife this century

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    Times of India

    Zoonotic diseases are rife this century

    A crisis does not emerge out of thin air; it has underlying causes. And most of the underlying causes, if not all, are in front of our eyes; it’s just that we refuse to see and act on them. The coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) crisis is not a black swan; [...]

  • COVID-19: Let’s prepare for the long haul

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    Financial Express

    COVID-19 - Let’s prepare for the long haul

    Five major modelling studies reveal that suppression strategy might require multiple lockdowns until a vaccine is available. Governments must prepare themselves and society for such an eventuality.

  • The anatomy of a pandemic: Silent infections could erode containment efforts’ efficacy

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    Financial Express

    Silent infections could erode containment efforts’ efficacy; developing anti-virals and vaccine must be part of the near-term vision.

  • Relation between coronavirus and global warming: Climate crisis changes disease pandemics

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    Financial Express

    Relation between coronavirus and global warming - Climate crisis changes disease pandemics

    Climate change, habitat loss, antimicrobial resistance, and other factors are increasing the chances of global outbreak of novel diseases. The issue is, how do we minimise and manage these outbreaks.

  • To reverse mass extinction of species, set quantitative goals for wildlife, biodiversity protection

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    Times of India

    To reverse mass extinction of species, set quantitative goals for wildlife, biodiversity protection

    The International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS), has systematically divided and named all of Earth’s 4.5 billion year history. The length of time has been split from the longest to shortest as eons, eras, periods and ages. According to IUGS, we are currently in the Phanerozoic eon, Cenozoic era, Quaternary [...]

  • Here why energy sector embrace technological disruptions and use them as an opportunity

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    Financial Express

    Here why energy sector embrace technological disruptions and use them as an opportunity

    Competition from Solar-plus-battery-Storage power seems set to challenge the viability of coal/gas-based power, and in the long run, of distribution companies (discoms).

  • Budget 2020: Investment in clean air would have cascading benefits for Economy, Brand India

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    Financial Express

    Budget 2020 - Investment in clean air would have cascading benefits for Economy, Brand India

    Budget 2020-21: The finances for this can be mustered by shifting resources from kerosene subsidies, and NCEF.

  • Bushfires in Australia: Lessons India can learn from catastrophe down-under

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    Financial Express

    Bushfires in Australia - Lessons India can learn from catastrophe down-under

    Many parts of India share the same ecosystem and conditions that have set Australia ablaze. We need to learn lessons to avoid similar catastrophes.

  • Income inequality, climate crisis: What the next decade holds for us

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    Financial Express

    Income inequality, climate crisis - What the next decade holds for us

    The quartet of drivers would put massive stress on our society. But, these challenges are also an opportunity to make big-ticket governance reforms.

  • Explained: How the rulebook agreed at Katowice further dilutes the Paris Agreement

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    Financial Express

    Explained - How the rulebook agreed at Katowice further dilutes the Paris Agreement

    Countries are now on their own to mitigate, adapt as well as pay for the costs of climate impacts, but this cannot keep the rise below 2oC.

One of India’s foremost environment and climate change experts Chandra Bhushan is the President & CEO of the International Forum for Environment, Sustainability and Technology (iFOREST).

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