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Due to its geographic location and low-lying coastal morphology, India's Sundarbans Biosphere Reserve (SBR) is extremely susceptible to cyclones and tidal surges. This deltaic region frequently sees cyclones that cause property damage and human casualties.

The International Forum for Environment, Sustainability and Technology (iFOREST) recently organized the first Global Just Transition Dialogue in Delhi to discuss policy and financial aspects of just and inclusive energy transition.

Forests world over are under threat.

Extreme rainfall events in India can not only have a massive impact on the agricultural output, but also create havoc in urban areas of the country by affecting lives and livelihoods and destroying property and infrastructure. And India needs to be climate ready to deal with these in the future.

The market value of treated wastewater in India will be INR 830 million in 2025 and INR 1.9 billion in 2050 if we have the mechanism to sell it to select sectors, according to an independent study by the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW).

The 2023 State of India’s Environment report, put together by Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) identifies areas where the country is falling behind as regards its Sustainable Development Goals.

We get a sense of water purity from its appearance, smell and taste to figure out if the water is clean to drink. But unsafe water can be tasteless and odourless too, making it difficult to determine its quality. Water can have chemical, mineral and biological contaminants that can make us sick in the short and long run. 

The Synthesis Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Sixth Assessment Report is a warning call for action on the quickly closing opportunity of keeping global warming below 1.5 degrees centigrade. Unless fossil fuels are rapidly retired, the impacts of climate change already faced by vulnerable communities will become difficult to handle.

Concurrent newspaper reports with contrary data points on the same subject is not unusual especially when it comes to issues on water. Some of these differences could get rationalized when we normalize for context but for the most part, we would not be able to tell which one is true because the data presented would mostly qualify as claims and not as facts.

Atpadi, a taluka in Sangli district of southern Maharashtra and  situated in the rain-shadow of the Western Ghats, was often called as ‘the land of dushkal (droughts)’ and experienced one of its worst droughts in 2012,  followed by those again in  2016 and 2019.