We’re expected to weigh carbon pros and cons of carpools & public transport, while the rich treat the sky as their personal playground. And we’re left to imbibe bits of paper straw with our coffee.
NGO Corporate Accountability & 'The Guardian' analyse data of top 50 carbon offset projects in the world and identify 39 as not accounting for cutting any extra greenhouse emissions.
Carbon markets are bringing unprecedented finance to ecological protection, but market frenzy also creating opportunities for greenwashing, creative carbon accounting.
Weak governance, corruption and poverty continue to define tribal life in India. The introduction of industrial and mining projects has benefited contractors, politicians and officials more than Adivasis.
Clean energy is “no longer the sideshow, it is the show”, BVR Subrahmanyam told the Odisha summit, warning India to lead the global shift or risk others’ tech dominance.
Dubai airshow crash & pilot death have rekindled concerns over pilot safety, and need for smarter automated systems that can step in when G-forces, temporary loss of consciousness hit the pilot.
None of Pakistan’s PMs has lasted 5 years. That the current PM has given Asim Munir 5 years shows that of all military dictatorships history has seen, Pakistan’s is most creative.
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