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CATEGORY : Climate Change

  • Explained: Why Paris Agreement can’t secure the world from climate change

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    Financial Express

    These words were spoken nearly 100 years ago by the then US president Woodrow Wilson to describe his vision of a new world order after the first World War.

  • Saving the earth from disastrous climate change needs a Plan B. Here is what that could be

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    Financial Express

    The world cannot afford warming of 2°C. To have a fighting chance to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, the goal must be firmly fixed at 1.5°C

  • Can the thermal power sector be trusted again?

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    Financial Express

    In the heydays of ‘India Shining’ in 2003, the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) had experimented with an alternate model to control pollution from industries. The model was named ‘Corporate Responsibility for Environment Protection’, or CREP. It was based on the principle of voluntary compliance: instead of the government [...]