-Down to Earth Climate change, desertification and the sustainability-affordability linkage THRee extremely critical issues facing India today Bhupender Yadav, Union minister of environment, forests and climate change, released Down To Earth’s Annual State of India’s Environment Report 2022 at the Anil Agarwal Dialogue organised by Delhi-based non-profit Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) March 1, 2022. “Reducing consumption and forming a self-restrained society is the only way that we can live with nature...

-The Telegraph The state is 11th in India in sustainability but below national average in most parameters Bengal has improved by two places its ranking among the states in terms of sustainable development but is behind the national average on the majority of parameters, including key ones like ‘climate action’ and ‘sustainable cities and communities’ (see chart). The sustainable development goal (SDG) score is calculated on the basis of scores in 17 key...

-The Telegraph Recovery will stumble, inflation will rise, rupee could weaken further, say economists New Delhi: India abstained on the US-sponsored UN Security Council “deploring” Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But we definitely won’t be able to stay on the sidelines when it comes to facing the economic consequences of the war, the most serious conflict in Europe since the second world war. India’s not a part of organisations like Nato whose members like...

-NDTV.com The Indian economy faces a potential THReat of stagflation from the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, driven by trade disruptions and rising oil prices. The Indian economy faces a potential THReat of stagflation from the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, driven by trade disruptions and rising oil prices which will push already high inflation further up, which will hurt growth prospects. Gross Domestic Data released on Monday showed the economy slowed in the October-December quarter, even...

-Newsclick.in Slope destabilisation, soil erosion and sequestered carbon loss have increased, according to Ravi Chopra. Noted Dehradun-based environmentalist Ravi Chopra recently resigned as the chairman of the Supreme Court (SC)-appointed High Powered Committee (HPC) overseeing the environmental impact of the Narendra Modi government’s Rs 12,000 crore 889-km Char Dham highway widening project in Uttarakhand.  The Char Dham project, one of the largest road-widening projects in the Himalayan region, intends to connect the four...