As air conditioners hum from Srinagar to Ooty, India confronts a paradox at the heart of its net-zero promise: the machines that keep us alive in a warming world are quietly helping to warm it.
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IAS (Retd)., Professor of Practice and Chair, Mission LiFE Centre, IIT Goa
India's new rural employment framework is not merely a successor to MGNREGA — it is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to embed climate resilience, water wisdom, and Mission LiFE values into the very grammar of village governance.
Sundeep Nayak is Professor of Practice and Chair, Mission LiFE Cell, IIT Goa. Dr Kyawt Yin Min Thein is a Sustainability Expert and Researcher associated with CRDT, IIT Delhi.
On World Environment Day, India's digital boom and AI sovereignty drive data centre expansion toward 5,000 MW by 2030. To combat high energy and water use, policy must mandate green, sustainable infrastructure.
A scheme that has crossed a million homes but skips the Himalayas will end up building India's largest rooftop solar programme and its most visible climate blind spot in the same breath.
A landmark UN expert group has declared GDP an inadequate compass for human progress. For a country as diverse as India — where Odisha's forests, Nagaland's community stewardship, Uttarakhand's fragile ecology, Tamil Nadu's social investment, Gujarat's industrial dynamism, and Goa's tourism pressures tell radically different stories — the case for a richer framework of measurement has never been more urgent.
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