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...
10 Apr, 2015, 05.13 AM IST
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.
06 Feb, 2015, 06.08 AM IST
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...
02 Jan, 2015, 05.38 AM IST
Global Warming: Will pasta cease to exist due to lower grain yield?Scare stories have been an integral part of the global warming narrative for a long time. Back in 1997, Al Gore told us that global warming...
14 Jan, 2013, 11.18 AM IST
- Climate change: With higher incomes, people will care more for environment
Freer trade will allow more people to escape poverty and secure sufficient food and clean water.
21 Dec, 2012, 05.03 AM IST
Green Power: Wind power does not help to avert climate changeMost people believe that a few wind turbines can be attractive, but it is an entirely different matter when turbines are scattered across t...
19 Mar, 2012, 08.26 AM IST
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...
19 Dec, 2011, 09.10 AM IST
- IBSA puts equity back on climate talks agenda
The Tshwane Declaration of India, South Africa and Brazil as part of the IBSA grouping's dialogue hinged the Indian climate change policy b...
31 Oct, 2011, 01.35 PM IST
- Cancun climate summit garners hope of balanced outcome
Just a week ahead of the climate change summit in Cancun, there appears to be some resurgence of hope that the UN sponsored process will re...
22 Nov, 2010, 11.08 PM IST
Green is the right answerFund basic tech research to tackle climate challenge
17 Jul, 2010, 12.30 PM IST
- Cars, bombs, and climate change
Let's replace hyperbole with a little more realism.
20 Mar, 2010, 11.36 AM IST
Two cheers for China's climate wallBeijing won't do anything to hurt its economic growth that has improved living standards of its poor.
16 Jan, 2010, 01.49 AM IST
- The tales of woe we are deaf to
Global warming's victims have other urgent concerns.
28 Nov, 2009, 06.05 AM IST
- Climate change posers
One of the stranger spectacles of climate change debate was the sight of NASA climate scientist marching with actress Darryl Hannah in Wash...
16 Mar, 2009, 01.08 AM IST
Obama and global warmingGlobal warming should be tackled, but through research and development of low-carbon alternatives.
16 Dec, 2008, 03.12 AM IST
- The green pseudo-revolution
With worldwide recession advancing, strong action on global warming has been thrown into jeopardy.
25 Nov, 2008, 12.11 AM IST
- Economists ponder over global challenges
The Copenhagen Consensus Center (CCC) is receiving research reports which will help it rank grave world problems.
26 May, 2008, 02.29 AM IST