Articles

Skilful Balancing Act

March 24, 2026

The article “Skilful Balancing Act” explores the Great Nicobar Project, an ₹80,000-crore initiative aimed at transforming the island into a strategic maritime and logistics hub. It highlights India’s attempt to balance national security and economic growth with ecological preservation. Despite legal challenges regarding environmental clearances and threats to biodiversity, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) upheld […]

Publication:Millennium Post

Author:Praveen Garg & Pawan Jai Singh Rathore

Category: Environment

Reimaging environmental health through AI

February 25, 2026

The article examines AI’s potential in early warning, pollution-linked disease prediction, and data-driven policymaking, while emphasising the need for ethical, transparent, and inclusive deployment. AI is transforming India’s environmental health governance by shifting from reactive crisis response to anticipatory risk assessment. Initiatives like the IndiaAI Mission leverage machine learning and satellite data to forecast pollution […]

Publication:The Hindu

Author:Sudheer Kumar Shukla

Category: Environment

Air Pollution: India’s Silent, Structural Threat – Bigger than Any Trade Tariff

February 24, 2026

The article highlights that air pollution is not just a health issue but, it is a structural economic risk for India, which is potentially more damaging than Global Trade Tariffs. It showed evidence on productivity losses, increasing healthcare costs, and long term impacts on growth, urging policymakers to treat clean air as core economic policy, […]

Publication:YESEARTH Journal

Author:PC Nath & Sudheer Kumar Shukla

Category: Environment

Decarbonising Through Markets

February 24, 2026

The article highlights how India’s Union Budget 2026–27 strengthens the transition toward industrial decarbonisation through clean energy investments and support for technologies like CCUS and green hydrogen. A central element is the Carbon Credit Trading Scheme (CCTS), designed to create a domestic carbon market and reduce emission intensity across major industrial sectors. Its success depends […]

Publication:Millennium Post

Author:Pratishtha Kumari

Category: Environment

Development, strategy and ecology in the Andaman & Nicobar Island

February 17, 2026

The Andaman and Nicobar Islands face a complex struggle between national security and environmental preservation. While the Great Nicobar Island Development Project aims to bolster India’s Indo-Pacific strategy through infrastructure, it threatens 1,100 endemic species and indigenous groups like the Shompen. Experts advocate for a recalibrated approach that prioritizes ecological realism and long-term resilience over […]

Publication:UNI India

Author:Sudheer Kumar Shukla

Category: Environment

Climate finance at the crossroads of growth and risk

February 06, 2026

The Union Budget 2026-27 transitions climate action from an environmental concern to a macroeconomic growth strategy. While it significantly boosts funding for renewable energy and carbon capture, critical gaps remain in climate adaptation, pollution control, and grid infrastructure. Balancing these manufacturing incentives with ecological resilience is essential to mitigate rising economic risks.

Publication:UNI India

Author:Sudheer Kumar Shukla

Category: Climate Change