Medha Priya discusses the urgency of dealing with climate change, green infrastructure, and why it’s time to bring the country’s women to the forefront in the dialogue of climate action. 

Neelima Mishra talks about her experience as a climate activist, the current challenges India faces, and why it’s crucial to understand climate change is real and that we must deal with it urgently.  

Energy consumption is essential for human wellbeing, but there is enormous inequality in energy use worldwide. The top 10% of global energy consumers use roughly 30 times more energy than the bottom 10%.

The summer heat in Canada, which proved to be fatal for almost five hundred people, led to an elderly woman in the country getting diagnosed with climate change. 

Known as COP27, the conference will aim to put Earth on a path to net-zero emissions and keep global warming well below 2℃ this century.

Fossil fuels have provided a crucial source of energy over the past 200 years. But they also account for 75 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions.

If capitalism reorients itself towards serving all stakeholders instead of just shareholders, I wonder if it may be possible to monetize most of our world’s largest problems such as climate change, poverty and sanitation.

A group of academics led by Aarhus University in Denmark developed a mathematical model, which was replicated in the study, to predict how rising temperatures will affect tomato production which could thereby lead to a shortage of the condiment: ketchup.

I believe that the pandemic was the cue we all needed to start leading an environmentally-conscious lifestyle. Small changes in our daily lives can help to reverse the damage that has been done to the environment.

Women, often the most impacted due to the crisis, have the least say. They are integral to climate change dialogue, not just because of their role and dependence on natural resources, but also because of their disproportionate vulnerability to climate change threats.