Sunita Narain

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Getting to the 1,412th tiger

Want to increase the number of tigers? Pay people quickly and generously for the crops destroyed or the cattle killed

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In poverty and in wealth

If the bus rapid transit system is working well in Ahmedabad, why can't it work in Delhi?

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Consumers should have choice on Bt brinjal

Jairam Ramesh, the Union minister for environment and forests, has agreed to put Bt brinjal on hold. I believe this is the right and only decision that he could have taken.

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Why Jairam is right

The research isn't unequivocal and hasn't been publicly-funded either - given the concerns, it's not worth the risk
Sunita Narain / New Delhi February 12, 2010, 0:40 IST

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Inconvenient truths

Climate change is definitely the biggest story of the 21st century. But its sheer complexity and urgency is defeating us. For the past 19 years-the first intergovernmental negotiations took place in Washington DC, USA in early 1991-the world has been arguing about what it knows but doesn't accept.

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The US and us

We dumped Kyoto because of the US - but even the diluted US-inspired Copenhagen accord is in peril

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Choose your future today

Do we want to take the modern convenient bus or celebrate the new hybrid car? That's the choice
Sunita Narain / New Delhi January 15, 2010, 0:43 IST

Do we want to take the modern convenient bus or celebrate the new hybrid car? That’s the choice.

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Copenhagen Accord: freezes carbon inequity in the world

This presentation shows the features of Copenhagen Accord: budget for 2020, cumulative injustice and how the burden of emission cut shifted to India, Inequity: Frozen and decided, how Copenhagen Accord is bad maths and worse politics.

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Copenhagen, R.I.P: Time to look beyond climate summit

Copenhagen: The Copenhagen climate meeting, which brought together 115 world leaders to deliberate on the perils facing the world from growing emissions, is near its bitter end. The conference has ended with meaningless commitments — from no targets on how the rich will cut emissions to no real agreement on the finance needed to pay for transition in the developing world.

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Copenhagen's non-deal

Cutting emissions drastically is neither easy nor cheap, so the developed world is looking for scapegoats.

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