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  • Open Spaces
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  • Urban Planning

How open spaces impact the ecological health of cities

When urban development, largely understood to mean construction, gathers pace to accommodate more people and commerce, one of the first casualties is open spaces. It is easy to “let go” of open spaces in the name of ‘development’ but this…
By Shivani DaveJanuary 26, 2024
  • Climate Change
  • COP28
  • Sustainability

After COP28: The implications for India’s cities and vulnerable communities

For the millions in India’s cities, the recently-concluded annual climate summit, or COP28, appears inconsequential and detached from their lived realities of…
By Aravind UnniDecember 29, 2023
  • Climate Change
  • COP28
  • Sustainability

India must lead the climate conversation on mitigation, with urgency

Climate change negotiations mean little unless India is prepared to commit to phasing out fossil fuels and evolve a clear framework on…
By Harish BorahDecember 29, 2023
  • Climate Change
  • COP28
  • Sustainability

Climate and health: Historic COP28 declaration but India has miles to go

Climate change has wreaked havoc with people’s health all over the world for decades but this theme got its due space at…
By Shweta NarayanDecember 29, 2023
  • Climate Change
  • COP28
  • Sustainability

COP28 skirts climate justice, shies away from phasing out fossil fuels

Although COP28, hosted by the oil-producing nation of UAE and controversial in some measure, important decisions and initiatives were launched to reduce…
By Shailendra YashwantDecember 29, 2023
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  • Climate Change
  • Sustainability

Sustainable drainage essential to solve Guwahati’s flood crisis

Assam is highly vulnerable to climate change and its largest city, Guwahati, bears the brunt of it. The change in rainfall pattern…
By Barasha Das and Harish BorahDecember 15, 2023
  • COP28
  • Climate Change
  • Sustainability

Climate adaptation funds are not reaching frontline communities: What needs to be done about it

After the brouhaha at the launch of the Loss and Damage Fund during COP27 last year, the reality has sunk in that…
By Katherine BrowneDecember 1, 2023
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  • Urban Festivals

Festivals in cities, beyond celebrations, shape public place and identity

Cities are theatres of celebration of different kinds of festivals, from the traditional and religious to the contemporary and cultural. People congregate and celebrate, but the story of festivals in cities does not end there. Festivals help to shape –…
By QoC EditorialNovember 17, 2023
  • Air Pollution
  • Sustainability
  • Urban Planning

When celebrations also mean bad air, deafening noise and waste mounds

The glitter and bonhomie of festivals in India bring in unwanted and unhealthy guests in the form of pollution and waste. Every…
By Shivani DaveNovember 17, 2023
  • Community Chronicles
  • Sustainability
  • Urban Economy

Is there a robust festival economy? You bet, it’s roaring

Festivals spawn their economy as consumption and gifting peaks to coincide with the celebrations. Diwali, Eid, Christmas or any regional or community-specific…
By Jashvitha DhageyNovember 17, 2023

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