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It is hard to make judgment on a report, which is published by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). It is more difficult to make a ‘politically correct’ statement on the same report, if that is linked to the global politics and affects the national economies of developing countries like India.

I am facing a situation of this kind, while reading the recently published report of IMF with the title, ENERGY SUBSIDY REFORM: LESSONS AND IMPLICATIONS[1], where…

Business can’t sustain without a sustainable production and consumption value chain development. Environmental sustainability is now conceived and implemented in regular business operations of companies not merely as a ‘green washing’ approach, rather, for most companies these days; sustainability is the core of corporate strategy. The rationale for this paradigm shift in the corporate strategy [from the old school of thoughts-produce more with less cost] is mainly powered with energy…

After an anticipated delay at the UN climate talks in Doha, Abdullah bin Hamad Al-Attiyah, President of COP18, took less than a minute to hammer through a series of ‘decisions’. He then declared the creation of the ‘Doha Gateway’. Immediately after this declaration, Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of UNFCCC tweeted: ‘All #COP18 decisions adopted by acclamation. We have a Second Commitment Period of the Kyoto…

52 years old Ghuire Parki lives in Khanmara village in Dadeldhura district of Nepal with his wife and 5 children. He lost his vision last year. Albeit late, he has now realised that his smoky kitchen built in a corner of his single-room house led to such complete blindness.

Indoor air pollution is an acute…