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COVID-19 Pandemic and Lessons for Climate Change Responses
PK Khup Hangzo, Associate Fellow, VIF Article

Introduction
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is simultaneously a public health crisis and an economic crisis. On the public health front, it has resulted in 21,527,747 total confirmed cases and 772,370 deaths in 188 countries as of 16 August ....

August 21, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies , Climate Change , Article , Climate Change , COVID-19 , Pandemic , lockdown , Green Recovery , Air Pollution , CO2 emissions , dirty recovery , clean and renewable energy , energy transition , low carbon economy , Paris Agreement 2015 , climate crisis , climate emergency
Sino- Iran Proposed Accord: China’s Expansionism Continues
Major General (Retd.) Ajay Kumar Chaturvedi, AVSM, VSM Article

Introduction
Sometime back there was a news item that Iran has decided to undertake construction of the Chabahar- Zahedan Railway Line on its own. The reason given was that India who was earlier building that Railway line was going slow on ....

August 19, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , China , Climate Change , Article , India , China , PLA Navy , JCPOA , USA , Chabahar , IRGC , Zahedan , railway line , Khomeini
Climate Change in The Himalayas : Its Impact on India’s National Security

Human-induced climate change has led to unprecedented changes in the Arctic and Antarctic regions. Similarly, the Himalayan and its surrounding mountain ranges, also known as the ‘Third Pole’ is experiencing drastic changes due to global warming.....

July 09, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies , Climate Change , Climate Change , Himalaya , Atmospheric warming , Himalayan Glaciers
This is the way World Ends : How Droughts and Die-offs, Heat Waves and Hurricanes Are Converging on America by Jeff Nesbit, Thomas Dunne Books, St Martin’s Publishing Group, 2018, United States, 336 pp, ISBN: 9781250160461, price-$29.99 (2,257.17 Rs)
Heena Samant, Research Associate, VIF

We all have heard of climate change and its impact now and of future time and again. So much so, that it has now become the new normal. But it doesn’t really get the mind space that it needs, for various reasons. Then comes a book like Jeff Nesbit....

May 13, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies , Climate Change , Book Reviews , Geopolitics , Impacts of climate change , Earth’s ecosystem
Renewable Energy is the Way Forward
Rajesh Singh Article

In a span of just seven days recently, two varying bits of information emerged on the climate change front for India. The first is that India lost 2,018 lives in 2018 due to the fallout of this crisis. And the second is that the country entered the l....

December 19, 2019 National Security and Strategic Studies , Governance and Political Studies , Climate Change , Article , Climate change and India , looming climatic disaster , Resort to renewable energy
Air Defence Cover for Mechanised Forces: The Bigger Picture
Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM Article

The Event
On 10 May 2019, it was reported in the media that India had finally selected the South Korean made Hanwha K 30 Biho (Flying Tiger), a highly mobile short range Ground Based Air Defence (GBAD) weapon system, to protect its for....

July 10, 2019 Defence , Climate Change , Article
विश्व पर्यावरण दिवस – भारत को खराब भूमि और बंजर भूमि की पारिस्थितिक बहाली के लिए शुरू करना चाहिए राष्ट्रीय अभियान
Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Article

भारत इस वर्ष 43वें संयुक्त राष्ट्र विश्व पर्यावरण दिवस की मेजबानी कर रहा है, जो 5 जून को मनाया जात�....

July 24, 2018 Climate Change , Article , पर्यावरण दिवस , प्लास्टिक प्रदूषण
World Environment Day - India should Launch a National Mission for Ecological Restoration of Degraded Lands and Wastelands
Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Commentary

This year India is hosting the 43rd edition of the UN World Environment Day, celebrated on the 5th of June, this time the theme being “Beat the Plastic Pollution”. In 2015, over 320 million ton of plastic waste was produced....

June 05, 2018 National Security and Strategic Studies , Climate Change , Commentary , World Environment Day , environmental degradation , nature restoration
Vimarsha: Waterways on River Ganges – Environmental Challenge & Opportunity with Dr. Onkar Mittal and Dr. Hishmi Jamil Husain

Vimarsha–the series of public lectures on contemporary national importance hosted every month by the VIF--was held on 28 July 2016 with well-known Ganga Activist Dr. Onkar Mittal and Environmentalist Dr. Hishmi Jamil Husain giving a broad overview ....

August 08, 2016 Vimarsh , National Security and Strategic Studies , Climate Change , River Ganges , Environmental Challenge , Historical significance , Ganga Strotam
Indo-US Cooperation and Perspectives on Climate Change
Dr Hishmi Jamil Husain

Climate change is an environmental problem that has various environmental, social and economic dimensions. Nations and citizens must determine how they can limit their own contributions to the negative impacts of climate change. India is one of the v....

January 22, 2015 National Security and Strategic Studies , International Relations and Diplomacy , US , Climate Change
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