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Sustainability
Beyond targets: Ensuring sustainable water access after the Jal Jeevan Mission
Posted on 02 Sep, 2023 09:51 PMThe Jal Jeevan Mission is in its final year, with a target to provide a functional household tap to every household by 2024. As of August 2023, 67% of households had been provided with a tap connection. However, approximately six crore households, accounting for 33%, are still awaiting a tap connection providing a 55-lpcd service.
![Jal Jeevan Mission, is envisioned to provide safe and adequate drinking water through individual household tap connections by 2024 to all households in rural areas (Image: McKay Savage; Flickr Commons; CC BY 2.0)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2023-09/2563743107_e946daf8e4_o.jpg?itok=_6qB5YkF)
Conference spurs global dialogue on equitable climate, health, and open access to data
Posted on 09 Aug, 2023 08:51 PMDelhi Research Implementation and Innovation (DRIIV), an S&T cluster of the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India, successfully hosted a momentous conference on 'Role of Open Access in Equitable Climate and Health Action: Prevention, Response, and Financing' under the esteemed aegis of G20-CSAR.
![Climate change affects the social and environmental determinants of health (Image: PxHere, CC0 Public Domain)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2023-08/climate%20health.jpg?itok=VPyMGtBm)
Study reveals the increasing cost of debt caused by climate change
Posted on 07 Aug, 2023 12:57 PMClimate change will increase the cost of sovereign and corporate debt worldwide, according to new research led by the University of East Anglia (UEA) and the University of Cambridge. Published today in the journal Management Science, the study is the first to anchor climate science within “real world” financial indicators. It suggests that 59 nations will experience a drop in sovereign credit r
![Human activities have been the main driver of climate change (Image: U3196787: Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2023-08/Climate_change-environment.jpg?itok=r6QD57f8)
Climate change and SDGs in the Global South: Unraveling intersectionalities
Posted on 02 Aug, 2023 08:09 PMDasra, a strategic philanthropy organisation, along with Observer Research Foundation, launched a landmark report on the intersection of climate and the SDGs in India titled Our Uncommon Future : Intersectionality of Climate Change and SDGs in the Global South at the Think20 (T20) Summit on July 31, 2023.
![There is an urgent need for scaling international cooperation to find solutions (Image: WallpaperFlare)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2023-08/global-warming-desert-dry-climate-change_0.jpg?itok=mD_wb1f1)
India's updated ESG reporting format and rules
Posted on 31 Jul, 2023 11:51 AMIndia’s updated sustainability reporting format and rules for ESG ratings providers
![India has rigorous environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosure norms (Image: WallpaperFlare)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2023-07/environmental-protection-nature-conservation-ecology-eco.jpg?itok=2Tmd_C4n)
Designing for inclusion
Posted on 26 Jul, 2023 04:57 PMSlums have become ubiquitous parts of the urban landscape today. The lack of formal planning and public infrastructure in these settlements makes them unhealthy and unsafe for the residents. There is an urgent need to provide safe and healthy housing to these communities.
![How can architecture support marginalised communities (Image: Community Design Agency)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2023-07/20230531_182022.jpg?itok=2hKpVbL_)
Nudging farmers to conserve water
Posted on 25 Jul, 2023 10:07 PMIn a randomised field experiment, researchers tested whether training medium scale farmers in an agricultural water reduction practice reduced water use from common aquifers in Haryana, India.
![Alternate Wetting and Drying (Image: Zoheb Mahmud Khan)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2023-07/Alternate-Wetting-and-Drying-AWD.png?itok=_rLi8AKP)
Prioritise citizen participation in India's environmental policy development: Civis
Posted on 16 Jul, 2023 10:12 AM![Need to improve citizen participation in India's environment and climate policymaking (Image: Caniceus/ Pixabay)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2023-07/climate-change-5232859_1280.jpg?itok=_I4l0kdA)
Implementing ‘just transition’ in India
Posted on 12 Jul, 2023 09:33 AMEmanating from global discourse around worker welfare, the concept of ‘just transition’ has come to be associated with climate action, where it intends to transform energy systems from being fossil-dominated to environmentally cleaner forms by keeping the interests of vulnerable sections of society at the centre.
![A just transition strategy needs to encompass techno-economic, socio-cultural, political and other varied aspects around energy transition and climate justice (Image: Kranich17/Pixabay/CC0)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2023-07/wind-power-g0715911cf_1280.jpg?itok=OpuOpZoq)
How data and technology can improve urban livability
Posted on 10 Jul, 2023 07:46 PMThe National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA) and Primus Partners Pvt. Ltd. (Primus) collaborated on a report titled "Data and Technology to Drive Liveable Cities." This comprehensive study was officially unveiled during the Urban 20 Mayoral summit held in Ahmedabad on July 7 and 8, 2023.
![There is tremendous transformative potential of data driven approaches in shaping urban environments (Image: Needpix, CC0)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2023-07/data-city.jpg?itok=3SfcHvOr)