What should India offer at Paris?
On June 30, the People’s Republic of China submitted its Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) to the global effort for the mitigation of climate change risks. China intends to peak carbon
Nitin Desai
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Nitin Desai: The climate for Cancun
About 10 days from today, the parties to the UN climate convention will have another bash at hammering out an agreement to avert what they all agree is one of the gravest threats that the world faces in the decades ahead.
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Demographic dividend?
Reform of education and urban mgmt and priority for growth in the Gangetic belt are the key Nitin Desai / New Delhi May 20, 2010, 0:16 IST
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Carbon forestry
The threat of climate change is now overwhelming the dialogue on forest policy. Forests, like other ecosystems, will be affected by temperature increase. But the dimension that is receiving much more attention is their role as a store for carbon. Forests hold more carbon than the atmosphere, and the interchange of carbon between the two is a major element in the climate debate.
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Coping with uncertainty
We need the courage to confront the evidence and the caution to avoid a catastrophe Nitin Desai / New Delhi February 18, 2010, 0:32 IST
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The Copenhagen climate circus
The real value of the climate process is its impact on the ideas on what it means to be a good global citizen
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Sunita Narain and Nitin Desai responding to Indias stand for Copenhagen
CNN-IBN presents the point of discussion on
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When things hot up: climate change has security implications
It is 2050. A warming climate and accelerated snowmelt have reduced the dry season flow in the Indus to a trickle. Pakistan backs out from the Indus Waters Treaty and demands international intervention against India to increase its share of water flow.
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Lower the temperature: reducing global warming risks is in Indias interest (Editorial)
A chorus of criticism has greeted India