Climate
The climate disaster arrived before the argument ended
From a glacier collapse in the Nepal-Tibet border, to wildfires across Europe, the past three months have shown that the climate crisis is no […]
Category: Opinions
Aid
How effective is the UN’s development support?
Max-Otto Baumann This blog post presents insights from my ongoing research on the UN’s development work at the country level. It is based on […]
Aid
How the Spectator frames climate issues- Dissecting Western Conservative narratives
They label global efforts to invest in renewables and mitigate emissions to support the carbon transition the ‘net-zero cult’ Narratives have power. Framing shapes […]
Cities
Cities need to handle climate-displaced people with dignity
Cities, no doubt, are aspirational and most people want to move into them for upgrading their stands of living. However, a lot of these […]
Climate
<strong>This Far…Go Further: Women and the Carbon Market!</strong>
Tasneem Balasinorwala and Diya Deb As we make our way one step at a time to make carbon markets and carbon projects the domain […]
Aid
Social innovators spur growth — from moringa to mourning flowers
Radhika Mia Social entrepreneurs are transforming the lives of 722-million people worldwide, and in Sub-Saharan Africa alone in 2020 about 28-million to 41-million jobs […]
Aid
Biggest US aid project in Nepal has created turmoil
Dipak Gyawali A Millennium Challenge Corporation grant to build an electricity transmission line has led to widespread criticism, protests and the undermining of democracy […]
Climate
While Australians are joining radical climate activism, the government is designing new laws to stop them
These laws, and their hurried legislation, have been criticised by civil society groups for attempting to undermine the ability for anyone to exercise their […]
Climate
Why a ‘one-in-a-thousand-year’ flood could become the norm in Australia
Notwithstanding the Australian government’s sub-par climate policies, Australia has created a government agency for recovery and resilience, a disaster risk reduction framework, and national […]
Cities
We must recognise cities as waterscapes
and Ajaya Dixit Recurring floods in major cities point to need for moving away from land-centric urbanism Chennai is flooded. The north-east monsoon that […]
Cities
Cities need net-zero commitments as climate induced internally displaced people keeps increasing
Women and girls make up over half of the world’s IDPs, 5 million IDPs are living with disabilities, an estimated 2.6 million are elderly, […]
Biodiversity
<strong>Can </strong><strong>Unconventional Land </strong><strong>be the </strong><strong>Hope to Support Our Food Security</strong><strong></strong>
Indonesia has a vast tract of suboptimal land that is rarely used as land for agriculture because it is considered to have low productivity […]
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