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Why India’s ₹561 billion drainage push must consider a street-nallah-lake network [Commentary]

Surjyatapa Ray 9 Mar 2026
Youth at COP30 protest against fossil fuels, for a global just transition to clean energy and climate action. Image © UN Climate Change - Zô Guimarães.

India’s federal climate action model could offer a blueprint for the Global South

Soumya Sarkar 19 Nov 2025

Urban green spaces can save more lives if placed right

Nikhil Sreekandan 25 Jun 2025

Safeguarding Indian cities from heat: In conversation with Sudeshna Chatterjee [Interview]

Saumitra Shinde 15 Apr 2025
Infopark in Kochi representative image urban climate resilience

A path to climate resilience through city-level research and planning

Divya Kilikar 4 Mar 2025

Leopards are adapting to central India’s urban jungle

Sneha Mahale 18 Feb 2025
City life in Jaipur. As of December 2024, around 41 cities have developed or are drafting City Climate Action Plans, as per a government statement. Image by Vyacheslav Argenberg via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-4.0).

Fixing the gaps in city climate plans with a national framework

Kundan Pandey 11 Feb 2025

Citizens’ movement against tree felling modifies a flyover plan

Nabarun Guha 17 Dec 2024

Climate action needs cities and cities need funds

Kundan Pandey 19 Nov 2024
A skyline of Kolkata. City-level climate planning is gaining momentum across India, with Kolkata among the cities planning to create a Climate Action Plan. Image by Subhrajyoti07 via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA-4.0)

Indian cities witness a growing momentum for climate action

Kundan Pandey 6 Sep 2024
A Main Bazaar of Paharganj of Central Delhi. Since 2007, the population of Delhi has almost doubled, from 19 million in 2007 to an estimated 33 million in 2024 but without a proper planning system. Image by Vyacheslav Argenberg via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-4.0)

Rethinking master plans for India’s growing cities

Kundan Pandey 23 Jul 2024

With intense and recurring heat waves, AC market grows

Vishal Kumar Jain 5 Jul 2024

Surviving a heat stroke, against all odds

Simrin Sirur 1 Jul 2024

[Commentary] The future of Delhi’s green spaces

Saurab Babu, Aruneema Singh 8 Jan 2024
Joyeeta Gupta speaking at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2023 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland. Photo by World Economic Forum - Jakob Polacsek/ Flickr.

[Interview] Joyeeta Gupta: The Indian voice for environmental justice at global platforms

Arathi Menon 27 Jul 2023
Open panchayat near Narsingarh in Madhya Pradesh. With the 73rd and 74th amendments, India took the first definite step on the path to ensure effective local governance in the 1990s. Photo by Suyash Dwivedi/Creative Commons.

State Finance Commissions in ‘poor’ shape, affecting decentralisation process

Kundan Pandey 23 Mar 2023

[Commentary] Lifestyle For Environment is a noble concept, but needs a holistic approach

Dipak Anand, G.V. Gopi 18 Nov 2022

[Commentary] Kolkata’s climate action plan needs to be more gender-sensitive

Manoranjan Ghosh 4 Nov 2022
A house flooded in Kerala during the floods of 2018.

Risk-informed planning essential to prevent floods in Kochi

Supriya Vohra 15 Sep 2022

What if we designed homes to stay cool?

Nithya Subramanian 4 Aug 2022