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Heat-proofing cities: Green solutions that helped to cool them

As cities around the world warm up faster and heat waves become more frequent and intense, cities have gone beyond red heat alerts and action plans to cool themselves. Some of the on-ground initiatives to beat the heat range from…
By Shivani DaveMay 31, 2024
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  • Sustainability

A new urban agenda for India built on reflections of the last decade

Since 2014, cities have found a special focus in the government’s policies and programmes. But how did some prominent programmes like Swachh…
By Aravind UnniMay 17, 2024
  • Climate Change
  • Gender Burden
  • Pollution

Delhi experience shows why clean cooking fuel needs more than Ujjwala

Household cooking stoves, or chulhas, contribute to carbon emissions besides endangering the health of millions of women. The Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana,…
By Ankita Bhatkhande and Saumya ShrivastavaMay 17, 2024
  • Climate Change
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  • Urban Planning

Green talk: Included in party manifestos, excluded from campaigns

As slugfests and fiery speeches take centre stage throughout the campaign in the 2024 general elections, environmental issues and climate change which…
By Shobha SurinMay 17, 2024
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Centring climate justice in rapidly urbanising cities of South Asia

The region is among the most vulnerable to climate change. With nearly 2.5 billion people and a limited capacity to adapt to…
By Shailendra YashwantMay 3, 2024
  • QoC-CANSA Fellowship
  • Built Environment
  • Climate Change

Deconstructing Hyderabad’s investment ‘climate’ and technological ecosystem

Market-led growth exploits natural resources, increases pollution, and creates vulnerabilities and inequities which worsen the climate impact on people. This essay examines…
By Arshiya SyedMay 3, 2024
  • QoC-CANSA Fellowship
  • Climate Change
  • Plastics

Karachi, choking on plastic, searches for solutions as climate impact looms

Plastic pollution and urban flooding go hand in hand. In 2022, catastrophic floods in Karachi claimed many lives and devastated the city.…
By Zofeen EbrahimMay 3, 2024
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  • Climate Change
  • Urban Forests

Guwahati’s green cover is declining but is key to its climate resilient future

The rising temperatures in Guwahati underscore the need for trees and green areas to combat climate impacts, but the city does not have dedicated projects to preserve or enhance them. There has been an 87.8 percent reduction in dense and…
By Barasha Das and Harish BorahMay 3, 2024
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  • Climate Change
  • Inequality

‘Climate solutions should be grounded in human rights, equality, and participation of worst hit’

Climate change is a human rights issue too, as judgments in India and abroad recently underscored. This recognises that not all people…
By Team QoCMay 3, 2024
  • Biodiversity
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  • Human Rights

Reading the Supreme Court judgment on the Right to Life and climate change

In a judgment that flew below the radar, the Supreme Court of India brought the impact of climate change into sharp focus.…
By QoC EditorialApril 19, 2024

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