Opinion
The White House Action Plan on Global Water Security by the Joe Biden administration says the water stress in South Asia creates challenges for farming, energy production, and access to clean water and sanitation. Pakistan recently gained global attention due to a massive flood, but it is also facin...
Climate change poses many serious challenges; among those, the rise in the sea level is undoubtedly the most alarming. Global sea levels have risen faster than since the beginning of the 20th Century, and it has become much worse in recent years. The sea has risen 21 centimetres since the records be...
Since 1970, the world has been observing April 22 as Earth Day. A major oil spill in Santa Barbara, California, in 1969 led to a massive environmental disaster. On its first anniversary, Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson spearheaded a popular movement to convince the US government that the planet was...
A decade ago, the Arctic was high on the agenda of Europe’s emerging security concerns. However, after Russia’s accession of Crimea in 2014, the focus shifted to Eastern Europe and the changing geostrategic computation due to planned Nato expansion.The War in Ukraine since last year has ...
Since 1993, March 22 of every year is observed as the World Water Day. This year, the focus of this World Water Day has been to accelerate the change in the behaviour and actions of the people and the way they use, consume, and manage water.Undoubtedly, the world is passing through an unprecedented ...
Are democracies better than other forms of governments in mitigating climate change and reducing greenhouse gas emissions? There is general unanimity that climate change poses greater challenges to democracies by bringing severe stress to societies.Climate change brings political instability by incr...
Two powerful earthquakes struck Turkey and Syria on February 6 have killed close to 50,000 people, and the number is likely to rise further. It is estimated that damages from the devastating earthquake may exceed $20 billion, though it is still early to measure the full impact.Seventy-four countries...
The quest for climate solutions reached a critical turning point when scientists recently concluded that curbing the crisis will require more than just cutting emissions: We must vacuum out the carbon already pumped into the skies.Without question, global leaders and investors should pursue the goal...
Seventy-five years ago, on January 30, 1948, a majoritarian fanatic killed Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, popularly known as Mahatma Gandhi, by firing three shots at him from a point-blank range in a prayer meeting in Delhi.Gandhi was not only the leader of India’s freedom movement, but he contin...
New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s sudden announcement to step down from her job by February 7 has surprised the world. She has been leading her country for just five and a half years and will now be replaced by Chris Hipkins. New Zealand, with five million population, might b...
Only a week after the inauguration of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as Brazil’s president, the supporters of former president Jair Bolsonaro stormed the country’s Parliament, Supreme Court, and Presidential Palace in Brasilia. Rioters overwhelmed the security in Three Powers Square, v...
The concept of development has been closely linked with the concept of security in this century. This so-called development-security nexus is not only limited to theoretical framing in academic literature but has also become the main mantra of international development assistance.Still, a big questi...
In the early 1990s, I went to the Swedish Television station in Stockholm to give an interview. My Swedish colleague and I just walked into the building without anyone even noticing us, and after a few minutes, I saw the news anchor reading the evening news behind a glass window.It was my first few ...
The UN Climate Change Conference, COP27, in Sharm Al Sheikh, Egypt, ended over the weekend. The deal to create a Loss-and-Damage fund is being touted as a success, but the history of climate financing doesn’t bring much hope.At the same time, the two weeks of negotiations at the Red Seaside re...
The annual UN climate summit (COP27) started this weekend in Sharm Al-Sheikh, Egypt. While the world has already reached its climate tipping point, there is no credible pathway in sight at present to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees C.The current pledges on carbon emission, if the countries can r...
The 27th session of the Climate Conference, or what is officially called the Conference of the Parties (COP27) to the UNFCC, will take place in Sharm Al Shaikh, Egypt, from Nov. 7-18, 2022.Europe, which always remains at the forefront of climate talks, is excessively occupied with the war in Ukraine...
The Group of Twenty (G20) Summit will take place in Bali, Indonesia, next month. The G20 Summit, formally known as the “Summit on Financial Markets and the World Economy,” was held in Rome, Italy last year but was not attended by Chinese President Xi and Russian President Putin.China had...
The 77th session of the UN General Assembly concluded on Monday. The Assembly met in person for the first time after a long gap due to the pandemic.In his opening remarks before the general debate, the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned: “Our world is in big trouble. Divides are grow...
Patagonia’s founder, Yvon Chouinard, gave up the ownership of his $3 billion company last week to fight climate change. A climate-focused trust will now own the company and expects to contribute $100 million a year to protect the planet.Several business houses in the recent past have committed...
Discussion about the impacts of climate change on the water system is mostly focused on glacier melting or sea level rise but not much on the rivers and lakes that supply a significant share of the freshwater for human use.River and lake systems are going through major changes worldwide due to warmi...
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