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

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    Financial Express

    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

    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.

  • COP 25: Failure of talks shows countries willing to sacrifice future of planet

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    Financial Express

    The failure of COP25 talks shows that to make a few billion dollars from the carbon market, countries are willing to sacrifice the future of the planet.

  • The unfinished agenda of Bhopal

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    Financial Express

    This was opposed by the NGOs, who wanted the site to become a memorial for industrial disaster.

  • The real mainstream: Hydrogen or electric vehicles?

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    Financial Express

    Currently, both electricity and hydrogen are produced from fossil fuels. Most hydrogen is produced by natural gas, while power is produced by burning coal and natural gas. Studies done in India indicate that with the current fuel mix, HVs have a slightly lower efficiency than EVs.

  • The truth about air pollution in Delhi

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    Financial Express

    Contrary to the claims made by the Delhi government, air pollution in the city has deteriorated significantly since 2012

  • Multiple categorisations trip single-use plastic regulation

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    Financial Express

    Uttar Pradesh has only one category of SUPs—products that are banned. Its list of banned products includes all kinds of carry-bags and disposable cutleries.

  • Single-use plastics: A roadmap to eliminate this menace

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    Financial Express

    Even after enacting four major legislations in the last 20 years, we have not been able to eliminate even one single-use plastic product...

  • Why US and China need to decarbonise their economies to ensure limit in global temperature

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    Financial Express

    Under Donald Trump, energy-related CO2 emissions of the country have grown in 2018, at a rate that is the highest since 2010, and is likely to be the second-highest in nearly two decades.

  • Thermal power industry is brazening out meeting new emission norms

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    Financial Express

    Coal-fired Plants are brazening out meeting the new emission norms in the hope of another extension, courtesy confusion among govt authorities.

  • Deforestation, desertification and climate solutions

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    Financial Express

    A decade later, the carbon market has collapsed and the developed countries’ funding commitments for REDD+ have also been much lower than expected.

  • Solar pump scheme needs serious relook

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    Financial Express

    Renewable energy is clean energy, but it doesn’t always lead to green solutions. For clean energy to become green, solutions must be comprehensively designed. Updated: Aug 21, 2019