By Rajendra Shende, Chairman TERRE Policy Centre, former Director UNEP. India was the host for the largest ever negotiations ever in the history of the international Convention related to Migration. With 2,550 participants including 263 delegates representing nearly 90 countries, 50 representatives from United Nations agencies, 200 representatives of NGOs, and over 100 members of ...

The story behind  COP 21-Paris Climate Agreement .  Benjamin Franklin, USA’s first Ambassador to France, is credited for creating world’s first bifocal lens. Tired of switching between two pairs of glasses, Franklin cut two sets of lenses in half and assembled them in a frame.

Joseph Keller, quizzical mathematician from Stanford university, figured out what makes a girl-joggers’s ponytail swing from side to side. We need him now to make us understand Climate Math where commitment Sums do not add.

The victory speech after wining the election in New Delhi was lost in the leader’s bounty of cough due to Air Pollution. Election was won but what about pollution? That battle is still lost in the smoggy, smoky and foggy curtain that regularly appears on the New Delhi skies. READ.

A typical dictionary says that manifesto is the a declaration of policy, belief, intentions and aims, especially one issued before an election by a political party or a candidate. It is made in public with the sole objective of getting more votes to get elected to lead and rule the society. In simple language it ...

Nearly 50 percent of the top most polluted 30 cities are in India. Delhi is more known as world’s capital of air-pollution than political capital of India. Out of the 7 million deaths that take place globally, as per WHO, due to outdoor and indoor pollution, nearly 1.25 million deaths ( 2017) take place in ...

So, will delegates from all over the world to COP 24 get the symbolic message of President Duda in hosting the Climate Conference of world leaders literally on top of the coal mines? Facing the reality and dreaming the coal-free future.

20 years back ,in August 1998, the then Prime Mister of China Zhu Rongji known for his aggressive administration methods and penchant for sweeping policy reforms, proposed in the meeting of China’s State Council