Amita Bhaduri
India’s pandemic generation: Inching closer to ecological disasters
Posted on 17 Mar, 2021 11:20 PMIndia is all set to usher in a ‘pandemic generation’, with 375 million children (from newborns to 14-year-olds) likely to suffer long-lasting impacts, as per the State of Environment Report, 2021.
Water: Governance challenges and suggested tools
Posted on 22 Feb, 2021 03:38 PMDahanu, an ecologically fragile area about 120 km from Mumbai, in Maharashtra’s Palghar district witnessed massive protests in 2019. Over 59 gram panchayats were opposing the land diversion to high-tech infrastructure projects.
Budget 2021: Environmental conservation or business as usual
Posted on 13 Feb, 2021 08:46 AMThis year’s budget was tabled when the country was grappling with the economic fallout of the COVID-19 induced crisis. The government was expected to provide an effective response to the pandemic-induced recession.
Economic survey 2020-21: Some highlights
Posted on 30 Jan, 2021 11:20 AMFinance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman tabled the Economic Survey 2020-21 in the Parliament on January 29, 2020 - the first day of the Budget session. The survey has analysed various topics from economic growth, fiscal stance, state of banking and more.
Natural resource management through a gender lens
Posted on 21 Jan, 2021 05:16 PMBuilding upon decades of international diplomatic relations and scientific research, the United Nations adopted the ‘2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’ in 2015.
Climate change: A look through a gender lens
Posted on 06 Jan, 2021 02:51 PMClimate change vulnerability is a multi-layered and multi-faceted phenomenon. “It’s a justice issue determined by both biophysical and socio-economic factors.
Should we bet more on historians than engineers to sort flooding?
Posted on 04 Jan, 2021 12:00 AMRaging floods swarming great expanses have been a common occurrence in the 21st century in South Asia.
Sanitation workers amid the pandemic
Posted on 28 Dec, 2020 01:51 PMSanitation workers are out in full force tasked with disinfecting the public spaces as COVID-19 crisis continues to impact the country on top of other serious challenges faced by our WASH sector.
Measures to usher in a low-carbon and equitable future
Posted on 27 Dec, 2020 12:27 PMAs the planet plunges towards irreversible climate change, the challenges posed by extreme weather events and environmental degradation pose an existential threat. The trends are irrefutable and there would be a temperature rise of around 3.2oC by the end of this century, even if countries abide by the emission reduction commitments under the 2015 Paris Agreement.
Air pollution: Filling the gaps
Posted on 22 Dec, 2020 12:34 PMAir pollution killed 16.7 lakh Indians and led to an economic loss of Rs.