Why Finance Commission’s Grants to Cities Remain Limited
Can cities plan their future when most funds are tied to Central conditions?
Category Center for Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Development
World Water Day: Safe Water, Not Just Running Taps
India’s water crisis is not confined to groundwater. The country’s rivers are under severe ecological stress.
Data from the Central Pollution Control Board classifies hundreds of river stretches across India as polluted, with high biochemical oxygen demand levels indicating heavy organic contamination.
Children at the Centre of Climate-Resilient Cities
Children are disproportionately affected by climate harms—they need to be at the center of local efforts to build resilience.
Drastic Reform, Not Fine-Tuning: Rethinking Fuel Efficiency Norms
The CAFE norms controversy should draw in the public at large, and not just rival automobile makers.
Rethinking Tiger Conservation: Why the State Must Take the Lead
TK Arun India promised tax certainty through grandfathering. The Supreme Court’s Tiger Global verdict undermines that. It’s the government that must restore credibility. It is a mystery why the government did not address, in the Budget, the damage done to India’s tax credibility…
Beyond the Summit: Bridging the Gap Between Policy and Funding
TK Arun AI sovereignty is not about apps or agents. It rests on GPUs, high-bandwidth memory, chip fabrication, political will, and the capital to fund long-term risk. The Artificial Intelligence Impact summit is on in Delhi. There is natural interest…
Storage: The Missing Piece in India’s Renewable Energy Puzzle
India continues to add renewable power generation capacity without any coherent strategy for its full utilisation, often ordering RE generation to back down to maintain grid stability. A vital deficit is a policy for storing renewable power, which is intermittent and missing from action for much of the day, forcing reliance on thermal power as India's mainstay.