Category Center for Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Development

The Malabar Salinity Frontier: Policy Blind Spots in Non-Kuttanad Estuarine Agriculture

Policy Update, Agriculture, Food, Nutrition Security and Rural Development, Center for Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Development

Kerala's estuarine rice-farming systems are often associated with Kuttanad, the famous below-sea-level rice-growing region of Alappuzha and Kottayam. But in the coastal wetlands of northern Kerala, a similar and much less recognised farming system exists in the tidal wetlands of Kannur, Kasaragod and Kozhikode. Known as kaipad (or kaikandam), it is considered the Malabar counterpart of central Kerala's pokkali system. Farmers grow salt-tolerant paddy during the monsoon and traditionally use the same fields for shrimp and fish harvesting during the rest of the year.

IMPRI Desk
August 13, 2026

Environment Protection (End-of-Life Vehicles) Rules, 2025: Evaluating India’s Framework for Sustainable Vehicle Recycling and Circular Economy

Center for Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Development, Environment, Energy, Climate Change and Sustainable Development, Policy Update, Urbanization, Habitat, Transportation and Regional Development

India’s economic rise has been accompanied by an equally dramatic expansion in vehicle ownership. Rising incomes, urbanisation, logistics growth and improved mobility have together made India the world’s third-largest automobile market. The country now adds more than 20 million vehicles annually (NITI Aayog), making automobiles one of the most important drivers of industrial activity, employment and consumption.

IMPRI Desk
August 13, 2026

Jal Jeevan Mission 2.0: Greywater Management & IoT-Based Monitoring Policy (2026) – Implementation Challenges

Policy Update, Center for Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Development, Environment, Energy, Climate Change and Sustainable Development, Public Policies, Programs and Schemes

Policy UpdateAshi Verma Background Jal Jeevan 2.0 represents a strategic goal to ensure universal access to safe and adequate drinking water through modern governance and technology. The Mission which was launched in August 2019 with the objective of providing tap…

IMPRI Desk
August 12, 2026

Climate Litigation, Activism and Environmental Advocacy in India

Center for Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Development, Environment, Energy, Climate Change and Sustainable Development, Insights

With the growing challenges of climate change around the world, it has become imperative that governments address them through litigation to ensure the conservation of their respective natural environments. The speaker for the session, Mr Debadityo Sinha, is a Lead in Climate and Ecosystems at the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, New Delhi, and presented on Day 4 of the Cohort on “Climate Litigation, Activism and Environmental Advocacy in India.” The session was hosted by Dolly Kaushik, and the speaker examined the regulatory framework governing the protection of riverine ecosystems in India. It explained how different environmental legislations interact to regulate pollution, conserve biodiversity, protect forests, and ensure that development projects undergo environmental scrutiny before being implemented. The session also had a significant focus on the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Notification, 2006, and the procedures for obtaining environmental clearances.

IMPRI Desk
August 10, 2026

Dedicated Freight Corridor: What a Decade of Rail Investment Achieved

Center for Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Development, Center for Habitat, Urban and Regional Studies, Center for the Study for Finance and Economics, Economy and Infrastructure, Policy Update, Urbanization, Habitat, Transportation and Regional Development

Rail transport has traditionally been a more cost-efficient mode of freight transportation than road. But in India, it has remained a problem due to the coexistence of freight and passenger services on the same rail routes, and this has constrained the efficiency and capacity of freight movement.

IMPRI Desk
August 9, 2026

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Beyond Population Control: Evaluating the Effectiveness of India’s Animal Birth Control (ABC) Rules, 2023

Policy Update, Center for Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Development, Environment, Energy, Climate Change and Sustainable Development

Policy UpdateArjya Shree Pande BACKGROUND India’s animal birth control ABC rules 2023, notified by the Ministry of Fisheries Animal Husbandry And Dairying on 10th March 2023, (Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, 2023) represent a comprehensive update to the…

IMPRI Desk
August 8, 2026

Nature-Based Flood Governance in Northeast India: Evaluating Assam’s Wetland-Based Flood Mitigation Policies and Initiatives, 2015–2026

Policy Update, Center for Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Development, Environment, Energy, Climate Change and Sustainable Development

Assam's relationship with flooding is not new, but the vocabulary of its flood policy is changing. For decades, the state's response to the Brahmaputra and its tributaries was almost entirely structural: embankments, spurs, and dredging works administered by engineering agencies.

IMPRI Desk
August 7, 2026