-Mongabay.com * A recent report on climate change by the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) states that nearly 38 percent of the world’s population is vulnerable to the rise in sea level. * COVID-19 has shown that if push comes to shove, countries do take extreme measures to save lives and livelihoods, and thus answer to what can be done to tackle climate change lies in changing our approach to both...
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Lockdown Hit Migrant Workers' Savings, Forced Many to Take Loans: Gurugram Survey -Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar
-TheWire.in The study also showed that most of the workers from far away states wanted to leave at the earliest. New Delhi: A survey of migrant workers in Gurugram, Haryana has revealed that the prolonged lockdown has left most of them without any savings and forced many to take loans. Also, while most of those who hail from far-off states like Assam, Bihar and West Bengal are keen to return to their...
More »What the New Govt Report Says About ‘India’s Climate Change’ This Century -Kabir Agarwal
-TheWire.in New Delhi: India just got its first comprehensive climate change assessment report and it doesn’t make for happy reading. The average surface air temperature in the country is expected to rise by 4.4º C by the end of the century if little is done to curb global carbon dioxide emissions. Even if emissions do fall &NDAsh; moderately &NDAsh; in the next few decades, temperatures in India could still rise by an...
More »Coronavirus relief package: Why banking on fiscally conservative policies is imprudent -Pranab Bardhan
-Scroll.in Fiscally austere policies will only serve to further escalate the revenue shortfall and debt problems. Several economists and businessmen have expressed their disappointment with the contents of the financial package announced by the government to face the unprecedented economic crisis brought about by the Covid-19-induced lockdown, the suddenness and severity of which had itself surprised many epidemiologists. The callousness toward the migrants and lack of immediate preparation to send them back &NDAsh;...
More »From Support to Disillusionment, How Cuttack Coped With the Lockdown -Surajit Das and Madhubrata Rayasingh
-TheWire.in Most of the people studied in the survey lost their sense of job security and said the government should put a robust unemployment programme in place. In order to understand the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on the common people, we made 122 phone calls from June 1 to 5, covering 595 people in the business capital and the second largest city of the state of Odisha &NDAsh; Cuttack. The respondents were...
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