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India exercises strategic autonomy based on moral strength: Pradeep S Mehta, CUTS InternationalExperts at a New Delhi roundtable discussed India's strategic autonomy and its evolving relationship with the US, emphasizing economic grow...- How the world is quietly winning on climateThe Kyoto Protocol and EU's Paris Agreement pledges demonstrate successful progress, with China exceeding its renewable energy targets. Thi...
- India should resist Western pressure on net zero and decarbonise at its paceThe average global temperature reached 1.6° C above pre-industrial levels in 2024, confirming the hottest year on record. However, activist...
- COP21: Time to take 'climate' out of 'climate aid'OECD has analysed 70% of total global development aid and found that about one in four of those dollars now goes to climate-related aid.
- Pick solutions that offer highest social and environmental returns: Bjorn Lomborg"The truth is we're not going to be able to do this. If we're not going to fix everything, first look at where can we do the most good."
- Improve infrastructure to cut food wastageIn South-east Asia, over 18% food is wasted. If we could halve the South and South=east Asian waste, we could feed an extra 234 million peo...
- Free trade, freer migration could help tackle povertyExtreme poverty – by current reckoning, living on less than $1.25 a day – is a continuing problem for far too many people today.
- Reliable and affordable energy : Make clean stoves, electricity part of the new promisesWorldwide, almost 3 bn people still don’t have access to modern energy, instead they use firewood, dung and crop waste for cooking and heat...
- Feeding people is smart: It's the best investment to do good in the worldAs it turns out, tackling nutrition is the most cost-effective solution around, because it has massive benefits for a tiny price tag.
- Hurricane Sandy resurrected the claim that global warming was to blame for such eventsSandy resurrected the claim that global warming was to blame for such events, together with the irresponsible argument that we should help ...
- Rio+20: Country's economy relies on environment, its national accounts don't reflect thisRio+20 is not about climate change alone; it is a revisiting of the 1992 first Earth Summit to reassess priorities and formulate action to ...
- Media reporting of climate change exaggerates its impactThe latest IPCC report is important because it illustrates real problems posed by global warming, without exaggerating them for sake of goo...
- Locavorism: Fad of unscientific greensThe best use we can make of our limited land, water is for each area to specialise in what it produces best, and then transport it to consu...
- Global landmarks go dark for Earth Hour campaignMajor landmarks plunged into darkness on Saturday as a symbolic energy-saving exercise unfolded across the globe, calling for action on cli...
- Climate change posersOne of the stranger spectacles of climate change debate was the sight of NASA climate scientist marching with actress Darryl Hannah in Wash...
- Economists ponder over global challengesThe Copenhagen Consensus Center (CCC) is receiving research reports which will help it rank grave world problems.
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