India climate change

The reliability that solar has brought has been a revelation.

Migration is often framed as a failure of climate adaptation. It’s better seen as an effective and sustainable response to climate change.   

India’s emphasis on uranium exploration assumes importance in the context of goals set by the government to harness non-fossil energy.

Shifting weather patterns have already altered people's lives through floods, landslides and droughts in this inhospitable but beautiful mountain region.

As a first step, India has identified 19 plastic items that aren't very useful but have a high potential to become litter, including plastic cups, straws, and ice cream sticks.

Extreme weather events, like India’s heatwaves, pose new challenges to green solutions.

Supplies of coal at thermal power plants are running perilously low, underscoring India’s need to diversify energy sources.

India’s aspirational climate action policies fit into a general pattern of incremental progress at the global level that lacks the collective sense of urgency required.

Although India is already suffering the impact of climate change, it is doubtful whether its government is at all committed to reducing emissions.

India's commitment to renewable energy can help it serve as a bridge between the developed and developing world.

The newfound attention on climate change at the MGC is a recent development, but a necessary one.