How Big Shifts Are Remaking the World
A remarkable feature of the world in the wake of President Trump’s assault on the global trading and security system is the resilience of global interdependence.
Category Environment, Energy, Climate Change and Sustainable Development
Analysing impacts of policies to combating air pollution and lives of women in Delhi
Delhi has become a centre of controversy and politics for the continuously rising and persisting levels of high AQI. Rising vehicular emission, industrial expansion, burning of stubble, etc. remains to be the prime suspected reason for this. States keep blaming each other for transmitting it with lesser stricter action against polluters.
Why the Energy Transition Cannot Be Gender Blind
Policies are often described as gender neutral. In reality, they are rarely neutral. Women, men, and different social groups experience policies differently because they do not have equal access to resources, opportunities, or decision-making power. Social norms, unequal asset ownership, unpaid care responsibilities, mobility constraints, access to finance, education, and institutional power all shape how people engage with public programs.
From Code to Coal: The Energy Footprint of India’s Digital Ambitions
If winter comes, can spring be far behind? Given the 23.5 degree tilt of the earth’s axis, which produces the seasons during the course of the planet’s steady rotation around the sun, such poetic expectation of inevitable good tidings is pretty realistic. But the hope that if you build giant data centres, a boom in artificial intelligence capability and its applications would follow rests on shakier ground.
Reviving India-Canada Ties: The Moment for a Fresh Start and Renewed Strategy (2025)
Both India and Canada had bilateral trade nearing $10 billion in 2024, with potential to increase given the diaspora connections, cultural ties, and rising investments.
Mission LiFE – Lifestyle for Environment – Policy Update 2025
Policy UpdateMuskan Thakur “This word is LiFE, which means ‘Lifestyle For Environment’. Today, there is a need for all of us to come together and take Lifestyle For Environment forward as a campaign. This can become a mass movement towards…
Mining Power: China, the US, and the Fight for Rare Earth Dominance
Beijing’s new export curbs on rare earths and other tech materials mark a new phase in its bid to weaponize its supply dominance. As Xi tightens control over inputs critical to the US and Trump threatens China with a 100% extra tariff, who will blink first?
Beijing is tightening its clamps on components that are integral to technology supply chains. Lithium batteries and related material, artificial diamonds that have industrial uses and rare earths like holmium, erbium, thulium, europium and ytterbium have been put on China’s export-control list.