As climate extremes intensify and infrastructure systems around the world face unprecedented stress, the global community is grappling with a stark reality that resilience is no longer optional rather an urgent imperative. International frameworks such as the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, as well as the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, both acknowledge the urgencyContinue reading “Resilience as a Development Imperative: Taking Stock of India’s Industrial Preparedness”
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Legacy Mechanisms, New Expectations: A Perspective on the Baku to Belem Roadmap to 1.3T
The recently released report “Report on the Baku to Belem Roadmap to 1.3T” (henceforth referred to as the Roadmap), prepared as part of the COP29 and COP30 Presidencies, is framed as an action-oriented consolidation of existing initiatives and potential leverage points within the international climate finance system. The report realistically acknowledges the tension between itsContinue reading “Legacy Mechanisms, New Expectations: A Perspective on the Baku to Belem Roadmap to 1.3T”
Why does COP26 remain indecisive on ‘Nature-Based Solutions?’
The buzzword for this year’s climate negotiations was ‘nature-based solutions’ or NbS. Several negotiations throughout the year discussed the importance of harnessing the benefit of nature utilising nature-based solutions. While the concept is still evolving and being pushed at COP26, its inclusion in the draft proved to be controversial. The draft initially published by theContinue reading “Why does COP26 remain indecisive on ‘Nature-Based Solutions?’”
Ensuring the Just in Energy Transitions
Global emissions are on the rise again after hitting a low in 2020 due to the pandemic induced worldwide lockdowns. As per the International Energy Agency (IEA), world emissions were 2% or 60 million tonnes higher in December 2020 than they were in the same month a year earlier. This is attributed to the re-startContinue reading “Ensuring the Just in Energy Transitions”
Distributive impact of green recovery packages
Currently, the world is in an extraordinary situation and is responding to an unprecedented social emergency caused by the covid pandemic and climate change. On one hand, governments have a task of reviving the economy in the short term, while on the other hand they also have to think and plan how to reduce theContinue reading “Distributive impact of green recovery packages”