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.
Category Environment, Energy, Climate Change and Sustainable Development
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.
Opening the Hills: The Ecological Cost of Land Reform
The Himachal Pradesh government has again opened the debate on relaxing Section 118 of the Himachal Pradesh Tenancy and Land Reforms Act, 1972 — a provision that has, for five decades, protected the state's most sacred resource: its land. Under this Section, a non-agriculturist cannot buy land in Himachal without prior permission from the state government. This legislative instrument ensures that land is not reduced to a commodity but continues to embody livelihood, culture and ecological balance.Today, in the name of "encouraging investment, industry, tourism and housing", the state government is tempted to loosen this protective clause. But to tamper with Section 118 is to play with fire.
COP30 and the Missing Voice of Children
COP30 highlighted children’s growing exposure to climate risks, yet weak commitments on emissions, adaptation finance, and systemic drivers left the promise of child-centred climate action largely unfulfilled.