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Beyond India @75: Growth, Inclusion and Sustainability -S Mahendra Dev

-Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai There have been many successes and failures in economic and social development of India in the last 75 years. The recent covid-19 pandemic had also an adverse impact on growth, employment, health and education etc. In this paper, issues and policies are discussed beyond India@75 for achieving growth, inclusion and development. As India is integrated with the world, global issues are also important for...

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Why India is neglecting its methane problem -Monika Mondal

-TheThirdPole.net The world’s third-largest emitter of the potent greenhouse gas, India is hesitant to join global phasedown efforts Last month at COP26 in Glasgow, more than 100 countries pledged to reduce global methane emissions by 30% by the end of the decade, compared with 2020 levels. If implemented in full, scientists said, the pledge could stave off 0.2 degrees Celsius of warming by 2050. India, currently the world’s third-largest methane emitter, was...

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India refutes allegations on ‘weakening’ Glasgow climate pact -Jacob Koshy and Suhasini Haidar

-The Hindu “Merely read out a ‘consensus’ statement on the final day of the COP conference’ Rebutting allegations that it had weakened the Glasgow climate pact by having the final text of the agreement read that coal would be “phased down” instead of “phased out,” Indian officials said it had merely read out a ‘consensus’ statement agreed to by all countries on the final day of the COP conference. India, the U.S., and...

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Profound changes -Renu Kohli

-The Telegraph Risks and rewards of a green transition At the CoP26 in Glasgow, India pledged to net-zero carbon emissions by 2070, with specific commitments at a shorter horizon to obtain half its energy from renewables and lower the carbon intensity of the economy by at least 45 per cent from 2005 levels as well as the total projected carbon emissions by one billion tonnes by 2030. The commitment to a low-carbon...

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CoP26 a missed opportunity: Graduate from kindergarten diplomacy -Sunita Narain

-Down to Earth The much-delayed climate summit in Glasgow did little to acknowledge that combatting climate change requires cooperation at a scale never seen before The 26th Conference of parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change — CoP26) is done and dusted, and the world has signed on to the Glasgow Climate Pact. The question now is whether this pact will go far enough to keep the world at a...

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