Climate & Sustainability
Climate Pledges and Disclosures: Pressure Mounts for Companies
Climate change is becoming more regulated on a national and global level, carbon-pricing initiatives are gaining traction, and decarbonization is now a commonly used...
Some Thoughts On The Warmest Thirty Years On Record
The last thirty years, we are reliably informed, have been the warmest, a post-industrial record for earth, and the same goes for the past...
The environmental and climate crisis of armed conflict
Fighting climate change requires a basic condition: peace. Before the Russian invasion, Ukraine’s decarbonization efforts had progressed in the context of COP 26 as...
Water sources are disappearing. How can we adapt?
If forests are the ‘lungs’ of our planet; absorbing twice as much carbon as they emit each year, then we can think of water...
Caste and Climate Change: The Indian Context
Since the beginning of the 21st century, the rise of Asia and its’ significance as a global force in a myriad of fields has...
Can We Still Stop Global Warming?
There is an on-going crisis facing our world that may not have the immediacy of Ukraine or its heart-wrenching images but is nonetheless more...
50 years have passed since Perón’s visionary environmental message
On February 21, 1972 Juan Domingo Perón announced the publication of his letter known as “Mensaje Ambiental a los pueblos y Gobiernos del Mundo”...
The Problem of Plastic and Why Sea Mammals are Still Dying
Authors: Dr. Arshad M. Khan and Meena Miriam Yust
If a warm glow of satisfaction descends upon us on occasion, perhaps when doing something of...
Wildfires, noise pollution, disruptive timing of life cycles: Looming environmental threats
Wildfires are burning more severely and more often, urban noise pollution is growing into a global public health menace, and phenological mismatches – disruptions...
Too Lulled to Act? False Sense of Security in Climate Crisis
It has been a few months since Don’t Look Up, a Netflix ‘comedy/disaster’ film, was released to the public. Yet, the hype and the...