-The Telegraph Can stability be achieved by sacrificing growth? Has the macroeconomic configuration turned binary? With inflation occupying centre stage, the choice seems fast splitting between stability and growth. Can the former be secured without compromising the latter? That’s the worry with policies swinging to address price, exchange rate and external stability. This is not to say that growth has receded to secondary position. But as interest rates harden and fiscal policy...
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Fresh perspective -A Raghuramaraju
-The Telegraph An empirical critique of development is not enough Is the plea for sustainable development feasible and sustainable? More importantly, is it possible to keep it sustainable within the current socio-economic format? Integrating sustainable development into our lives is both urgent and inevitable. However, is the present strategy of conducting empirical case studies on the dangers of development an effective way of addressing this urgency? Unlike any other peril the world...
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-United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) A prolonged and deadly heatwave has hit large swaths of India and Pakistan affecting hundreds of millions of people and sparking food and Energy shortages. Experts say the extreme heat is a grim preview of what the climate crisis has in store for a region home to over 1 billion people. Temperatures in India’s capital and parts of Pakistan have at times reached close to 50°C, killing...
More »Greening India through cooperatives -Hema Yadav and Manisha Paliwal
-The Hindu Business Line They have shown the way in water conservation, waste management and solar Energy Be it climate change adaptation or mitigation, cooperatives have set the agenda to collectively provide solutions to the looming impact of rising temperature, loss of jobs, depletion of water resources, degradation of land and forest resources and accumulation of wastes leading to health hazards. The explicit adoption of eco-social agendas by cooperatives is contributing to co-op...
More »The Afterlife of Solar Panels -Mahashri Ranjith Kumar
-The Wire Science * Solar Energy is a rapidly expanding marketplace that should benefit the environment. Solar panels can last for decades if they are properly cleaned and maintained. * But there is a catch. What happens to these panels after they are decommissioned? They go straight to the landfill, where they have significant consequences. * Heavy metals in solar panels such as lead and cadmium have been known to seep out of...
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