by sanjana | Mar 11, 2022
(The column first appeared in The Economist on March 9, 2022) AS AMERICA and Britain announced embargoes on Russian energy, our global energy and climate innovation editor Vijay Vaitheeswaran talked to oil and gas industry leaders in Houston where jaws dropped and...
by sanjana | Mar 30, 2022
(The article was first published in UNDP Climate on March 7, 2022) Environmental degradation caused by the climate crisis can exacerbate food and water insecurity, and amplify poverty and underlying inequalities. When climate-induced natural disasters happen, women...
by Namrata Srivastava | Apr 9, 2022
(The article was first published in India Today on April 5, 2022) While warning that the window to avoid the 1.5 degrees Celsius catastrophic rise in temperatures is fast closing, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) called for...
by sanjana | Apr 30, 2022
(The article first appeared on McKinsey on May 15, 2022) After more than 10,000 years of relative stability—the full span of human civilization—the Earth’s climate is changing. Since the 1880s, the average global temperature has risen by about 1.1 degrees Celsius,...