Category Center for Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Development

Journey to Global Sustainability: WEF’s Giving to Amplify Earth Action Initiative

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

The World Economic Forum, renowned for its commitment to shaping global agendas, launched the Giving to Amplify Earth Action (GAEA) initiative as a response to the pressing need for coordinated efforts in the realm of environmental sustainability. This initiative, which acknowledges that environmental issues transcend national borders, strives to utilize collective giving in addressing the major environmental crises the world is currently facing.

IMPRI Desk
May 25, 2024

The Evolution of India’s Labour Landscape

Insights, Center for Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Development, Center for Habitat, Urban and Regional Studies, Center for Human Dignity and Development, Center for ICT for Development, Center for Work and Welfare

The gains made by the working-class post second World War started fading away in the post liberalization era. Not just the basic mode of production underwent metamorphosis, the density of the organized working class diminished substantially in India.

IMPRI Desk, IMPRI Desk and IMPRI Desk
May 3, 2024

Addressing Climate Change Impact on Informal Workers

Insights, Center for Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Development, Center for Habitat, Urban and Regional Studies, Center for Work and Welfare

On this May Day, there is an urgent need to recognise the organic links between workers’ rights and climate change, and build worker-centred pathways for climate-just transitions.

IMPRI Desk, IMPRI Desk and IMPRI Desk
May 1, 2024

Caste, Privatization, and Environmental Degradation: Reassessing India’s Swachh Bharat Mission

Insights, Center for Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Development, Center for Habitat, Urban and Regional Studies, Center for Human Dignity and Development, Center for Work and Welfare

The Swachh Bharat Mission tried to create a narrative that sanitation is everyone’s job. Instead, it has ended up continuing the same old caste practices.

IMPRI Desk and IMPRI Desk
April 27, 2024

Earth Day 2024: Addressing Climate Change and Environmental Justice

Insights, Center for Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Development

“Earth Day” originated in the year 1970 in a mobilisation of the ordinary people to create awareness about environmental issues. More than 50 years later, people across the world commemorate the day by doing volunteer work, celebrating the ecological movement’s progress and doing actions in defence of our planet.

IMPRI Desk, IMPRI Desk and IMPRI Desk
April 25, 2024

Planet vs Plastic: Earth Day’s Urgent Call for Action

Insights, Center for Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Development

The theme for World Earth Day, celebrated on April 22, was “Planet versus plastic.” It was estimated that over a billion people across the globe would participate in the events to demonstrate their commitment to protecting our planet.

IMPRI Desk and IMPRI Desk
April 25, 2024

A Tale of Two Centuries: Himachal Pradesh’s Development Journey and Future Imperatives

Insights, Center for Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Development, Center for Habitat, Urban and Regional Studies

For centuries, the region now known as Himachal Pradesh, nestled in the Himalayas, and its people were subjects of diverse princely states, ethnographic migrations, and colonial rule under the British.

IMPRI Desk, IMPRI Desk and IMPRI Desk
April 16, 2024