India’s Electric Mobility Needs Enabling Infrastructure to Pick up Speed

NEW DELHI, Dec 6 2019 (IPS) – Dogged by intractable air pollution debilitating large northern swathes from mainly urban vehicle emissions, India earlier this year announced targets for a 40 percent non-fossil component in...

Mother Earth’s Café Dares Climate Crises in India

“Come post-monsoon it’s mushroom time,” the 60-year old grandmother of six tells IPS in this street corner of Shillong city — perched 1,525 metres above sea level in the Indian Himalaya’s north-east Meghalaya State....

India’s Outdoor Workers on the Frontlines of Climate Change

NEW DEHLI, Feb 5 2020 (IPS) – Last June when more than half of India was reeling under daily temperatures topping 40 degrees Celsius, Nursing Behera’s 11-month-old son burned both his legs when a...

Is India on Track to Beat the Perfect Storm?

NEW DELHI, Aug 12 2019 (IPS) – “The Perfect Storm” was a dire prediction that by 2030 food shortages, scarce water and insufficient energy resources together with climate change would threaten to unleash public...