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India’s Parliamentary Discourse on Environment since the Paris Agreement. This report examines the evolution of India’s ...

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Climate Justice Must Not Become a Contest Between Neighbours : An Indian climate and ecological-justice perspective to Nepal’s demand

Nepal’s response to the catastrophic Lhende Khola-Bhotekoshi-Trishuli disaster in August 2026 marks an importa...

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Nepal Disaster and Hydropower: How Global Banks Downplayed the Risks they Knew

On the 28th August 2026, Nepali officials roughly doubled their tally of missing people to over 1,900, saying hydropower...

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Extreme Weather, Unequal Impact: India’s Growing Divide | Editorial | Finance Matters, 21 November 2025

India’s growing climate crisis is now impossible to overlook. A new Climate Risk Index by Germanwatch ranks India ninth ...

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बीत चुका है, हिमालय को सुनने का समय

मौजूदा अनियंत्रित विकास से किसी तरह अब तक बचे उत्तराखंड और हिमाचल प्रदेश के वाशिंदे चीख-चीखकर गुहार लगा रहे हैं कि अगले ...

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जलवायु संकट सभी के चिंताओं में शामिल हो

हर महाद्वीप के हर देश का हर व्यक्ति किसी न किसी रूप में जलवायु परिवर्तन से प्रभावित होगा। एक जलवायु प्रलय मंडरा रहा है, ...

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Coal is Clean for Rural India and Dirty for Urban?

Rollback of FGD rules is a shortsighted, unhealthy, and economically flawed move. Press Statement | July 16, 2025 New...

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A Tragic Predicament

Excerpt from Wild Fictions By Amitav Ghosh ‘Trees were my teachers,’ wrote the German poet Friedrich Hölderlin, and if t...

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विश्व मरुस्थलीकरण एवं सूखा रोकथाम दिवस(17 जून)मिट्टी क्षरण और वर्षा पानी को रोकना मरुस्थलीकरण का सामाधान

शुष्क भूमि पारिस्थितिकी तंत्र, जो दुनिया के एक तिहाई से अधिक भूमि क्षेत्र को कवर करता है, अत्यधिक दोहन और अनुचित भूमि उप...

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3200 MW Adani Anuppur Project: A Threat to Tiger Corridors and Local Livelihoods

The Adani Group is planning to build a 3,200 (4 × 800) MW ultra-supercritical coal-fired power plant at Chhatai in Kotma...

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October 1, 2026

Hajira Puthige

India’s Parliamentary Discourse on Environment since the Paris Agreement. This report examines the evolution of India’s legislative engagement with the climate crisis during the critical decade following the adoption of the Paris Agreement in December 2015. As the world’s largest democracy and one o...

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September 16, 2026

Soumya Dutta

Climate Justice Must Not Become a Contest Between Neighbours : An Indian climate and ecological-justice perspective to Nepal’s demand

Nepal’s response to the catastrophic Lhende Khola-Bhotekoshi-Trishuli disaster in August 2026 marks an important shift in how climate disasters are understood. Rather than presenting the Himalayan catastrophe simply as a humanitarian disaster requiring charity, Kathmandu has emphasised its...

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September 16, 2026

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Nepal Disaster and Hydropower: How Global Banks Downplayed the Risks they Knew

On the 28th August 2026, Nepali officials roughly doubled their tally of missing people to over 1,900, saying hydropower producers had only recently shared a count of unaccounted-for workers at projects in the devastated river valleys. It is feared that over 900 people are missing from hydropower pr...

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November 26, 2025

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Extreme Weather, Unequal Impact: India’s Growing Divide | Editorial | Finance Matters, 21 November 2025

India’s growing climate crisis is now impossible to overlook. A new Climate Risk Index by Germanwatch ranks India ninth among the countries most severely affected by extreme weather in the last 30 years. In this period, the country saw nearly 430 extreme events, including heat waves, floods, storms,...

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September 1, 2025

Raj Kumar Sinha

बीत चुका है, हिमालय को सुनने का समय

मौजूदा अनियंत्रित विकास से किसी तरह अब तक बचे उत्तराखंड और हिमाचल प्रदेश के वाशिंदे चीख-चीखकर गुहार लगा रहे हैं कि अगले दस-पंद्रह सालों में उनके राज्यों का अस्तित्व समाप्त हो जाएगा। आप यदि ध्यान से इन दिनों आने वाली इन दो हिमालयी राज्यों की खबरों पर नजर रख रहे हों तो इस दुखद गुहार में कोई अतिशयोक्ति...

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July 25, 2025

Raj Kumar Sinha

जलवायु संकट सभी के चिंताओं में शामिल हो

हर महाद्वीप के हर देश का हर व्यक्ति किसी न किसी रूप में जलवायु परिवर्तन से प्रभावित होगा। एक जलवायु प्रलय मंडरा रहा है, और हम इसके संभावित परिणामों के लिए पूरी तरह तैयार नहीं हैं। जलवायु परिवर्तन मानवीय गतिविधियों के कारण होता है और जैसा कि हम जानते हैं, पृथ्वी पर जीवन के लिए ख़तरा है। बढ़ते ग्रीनहा...

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July 16, 2025

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Coal is Clean for Rural India and Dirty for Urban?

Rollback of FGD rules is a shortsighted, unhealthy, and economically flawed move. Press Statement | July 16, 2025 New Delhi: On July 11, 2025, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) issued a notification relaxing the 2015 mandate for Flue Gas Desulfurization (FGD) sy...

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June 30, 2025

Amitav Ghosh

A Tragic Predicament

Excerpt from Wild Fictions By Amitav Ghosh ‘Trees were my teachers,’ wrote the German poet Friedrich Hölderlin, and if there is any place on Earth that could say the same of itself, it is Ternate, a tiny island in the archipelago that was once known as the Moluccas or Spice Islands. It is now part o...

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June 20, 2025

Raj Kumar Sinha

विश्व मरुस्थलीकरण एवं सूखा रोकथाम दिवस(17 जून)मिट्टी क्षरण और वर्षा पानी को रोकना मरुस्थलीकरण का सामाधान

शुष्क भूमि पारिस्थितिकी तंत्र, जो दुनिया के एक तिहाई से अधिक भूमि क्षेत्र को कवर करता है, अत्यधिक दोहन और अनुचित भूमि उपयोग के लिए बेहद संवेदनशील है।मरुस्थलीकरण शुष्क, अर्ध-शुष्क और शुष्क उप-आर्द्र क्षेत्रों में भूमि का क्षरण है, यह मुख्य रूप से मानवीय गतिविधियों और जलवायु परिवर्तनों के कारण होता है...

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May 6, 2025

Deepmala Patel

3200 MW Adani Anuppur Project: A Threat to Tiger Corridors and Local Livelihoods

The Adani Group is planning to build a 3,200 (4 × 800) MW ultra-supercritical coal-fired power plant at Chhatai in Kotma block of Anuppur district, Madhya Pradesh. This project is also known as the Welspun Energy, Anuppur Thermal Power Plant. Originally, the project was owned by the Welspun Group, w...

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Climate on the Floor

Climate Justice Must Not Become a Contest Between Neighbours : An Indian climate and ecological-justice perspective to Nepal’s demand

Nepal Disaster and Hydropower: How Global Banks Downplayed the Risks they Knew

Extreme Weather, Unequal Impact: India’s Growing Divide | Editorial | Finance Matters, 21 November 2025

बीत चुका है, हिमालय को सुनने का समय

जलवायु संकट सभी के चिंताओं में शामिल हो

Coal is Clean for Rural India and Dirty for Urban?

A Tragic Predicament

विश्व मरुस्थलीकरण एवं सूखा रोकथाम दिवस(17 जून)मिट्टी क्षरण और वर्षा पानी को रोकना मरुस्थलीकरण का सामाधान

3200 MW Adani Anuppur Project: A Threat to Tiger Corridors and Local Livelihoods

Climate on the Floor

Climate Justice Must Not Become a Contest Between Neighbours : An Indian climate and ecological-justice perspective to Nepal’s demand

Nepal Disaster and Hydropower: How Global Banks Downplayed the Risks they Knew

Extreme Weather, Unequal Impact: India’s Growing Divide | Editorial | Finance Matters, 21 November 2025

बीत चुका है, हिमालय को सुनने का समय

जलवायु संकट सभी के चिंताओं में शामिल हो

Coal is Clean for Rural India and Dirty for Urban?

A Tragic Predicament

विश्व मरुस्थलीकरण एवं सूखा रोकथाम दिवस(17 जून)मिट्टी क्षरण और वर्षा पानी को रोकना मरुस्थलीकरण का सामाधान

3200 MW Adani Anuppur Project: A Threat to Tiger Corridors and Local Livelihoods