Category Environment, Energy, Climate Change and Sustainable Development

Energy

India’s Renewable Energy Push Needs Storage to Last

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.

world

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.

Delhi

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.

Energy

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.

Digital

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.

Canada

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

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…

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