Wayanad landslides - who is to blame?
The Wayanad landslides on July 30th created ripples of shock and helplessness through the country.
Climate Crisis
Media Workshop 2021: Media as a catalyst for clean and sustainable power generation
Like any other state in India, Tamil Nadu principally relies on coal for its energy production which is a major contributor to climate change and raises the vulnerability of Tamil Nadu and other Indian states to frequent natural disasters and extreme weather events. Public concern about climate change was largely informed via media consumption. It's important for climate change to become a bigger part of the national conversation, along with what's causing it: the burning of oil, gas and coal and the media has a big role to play in it. During this workshop, reputed journalist, Mr.
A brief insight into why ecocide should be prosecuted as an international crime
The debate between ecology and development is never-ending and has spanned for centuries. For the development of any country, a slight compromise on the ecological front is an unwarranted side-effect. However, due consideration has to be given to determine the extent to which the ecological depletion of resources can be justified.
St(o)ppwatch July 2021
The proposed INR 4,000 crore Deep Ocean Mission is a disaster in the making and the government should halt this dangerous step immediately. This edition of St(o)ppwatch brings you news on climate injustice, effects of climate denial and much more!
Climate Injustice 101 - the whys, whos and hows of it
By ~ Mala Balaji, Researcher - Environment and Climate Action
Climate injustice is a topic that has started gaining momentum in the recent past, thanks to climate activists. But what exactly is climate injustice? In order to get a basic idea about what it actually means, we need to start analysing retrospectively. For instance, what is climate change, who causes it, who gets hurt by it and so on and so forth.
Climate Crisis is Breaking the Back of South Asian Countries
Climate Crisis, What Is That?
The Power of PR: How Induced Climate Denial is Becoming Big Business
Climate Change denialism has become the new age fad. Who is responsible for denying climate science and spreading disinformation? Is there a vested interest behind this strategy? This is an attempt to demystify the falsely propagated junk science in layman terms.
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Mala Balaji, Researcher - Environment and Climate Action
Too hot to handle- Chennai as a cauldron of the climate crisis
Temperatures recorded in the city over the past 75 years show the city has been warming at an
unprecedented pace since the 1990s, and will be worrisomely warm by 2050
Taking climate crisis to colleges: lessons in unlearning
It is not the most enviable of tasks - to announce to anyone that the future is not what it used to be. More so if the audiences for our apocalyptic messages are gleamy-eyed youngsters, with supposedly a heady mix of hope, irreverence and apathy (they can ill-afford, if you ask us). And what reason do we have to snuff out the rosy future they’ve imagined for the world? The ‘ambiguous’, ‘invisible’ and ‘deniable’ omnibus of reasons called climate crisis/emergency.
India continues public financing of coal in the time of climate crisis
This blog reveals the large public investors and creditors exposure to coal mining, coal based power production and transmission industries in India, their standing compared to global peers and investments in the renewable energy sector.