Tag: Climate Change
Source Sustainability of Water Supply under JJM Needs Attention – Dr...
Simi Mehta, Amita Bhaduri, Ritika Gupta, Nikhil Jacob, Manoswini SarkarFrom the lens of water professional, Dr Indira Khurana, Vice-Chair, Tarun Bharat Sangh, who has...
Need for A National Urban Water Policy to Develop Water-Smart Cities...
Simi Mehta, Amita Bhaduri, Anshula Mehta, Sunidhi Agarwal, Manoswini SarkarExpressing his displeasure over the absence of the term ‘ecology’ from the Budget speech at...
An Ecologically Illiterate Budget
Ashish KothariIn 1991, when the then Finance Minister Manmohan Singh ushered in ‘economic reforms’ that catapulted India into the global economy, I had asked...
Carry Out Strategic Impact Assessment of Every Project – Mr Debadityo...
Simi Mehta, Amita Bhaduri, Anshula Mehta, Sunidhi Agarwal, Manoswini SarkarSeveral environment institutions and organizations play a critical role in aspects of data collection, monitoring,...
Havoc in the upper Himalayas: Need to Change the Uttarakhand’s Economic...
Gurinder KaurRecent havoc in the Chamoli district of Uttarakhand, where a large part of the Nanda Devi Glacier fell into the Alaknanda stream near...
Supreme Court’s Forestland Ruling: What Lessons can Himachal Pradesh Learn from...
Gurinder KaurOn February 15, 2021, a three-judge green bench headed by Chief Justice of India S A Bobde allowed the Himachal Pradesh government to...
Climate Emergency, Disasters and Resilience: Inclusive Business Continuity Management
Simi Mehta, Amita BhaduriThe biggest global challenge of the 21st century is the climate emergency. News headlines are flooded with victims of disasters, often...
Interlinkages of Rivers (ILR) – A Flawed Concept
Simi Mehta, Amita Bhaduri, Paavani Pegatraju"Making peace with nature is the defining task of the 21st century. It must be the top, top priority...
Water Governance: Challenges and the Way Forward
Simi MehtaWater Governance poses one of the biggest challenges in modern-day India that looks out for definitive solutions. How this scare water resource is...
Environment and Budget 2021: Business as Usual?
Simi Mehta, Amita Bhaduri, Anshula Mehta, Nikhil Jacob, Manoswini SarkarThe Union Budget 2021 is touted to be the mother of all budgets since it...
