New Delhi, Jan. 31 -- In the past three articles on the Economics of Climate Change, we have discussed the concept of the social discount factor. In particular, in the comparison of Stern and Nordhaus... Read More
New Delhi, Jan. 24 -- Both Nordhaus and Stern have contributed immensely to the study of economics and climate change. Their approach was also similar: the use of Integrated Assessment Models to incor... Read More
New Delhi, Jan. 10 -- In the Climate Change series, we have covered international negotiations on climate change under the aegis of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), ... Read More
New Delhi, Jan. 3 -- In the two-part article on the Science and Economics of Climate Change, we introduced the basic science of climate change, the different world views of climate economists and clim... Read More
New Delhi, Dec. 6 -- The advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), pronounced in July 2025, which made the State legally responsible for its greenhouse gas emissions and allowed in... Read More
New Delhi, Nov. 29 -- We had looked at Enhanced Rock Weathering (ERW) as a simple and easy way of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) in an earlier article in this series. To recall, "ERW is nothing but weat... Read More
New Delhi, Nov. 27 -- The 30th Conference of Parties (COP) came to an end last Friday, on November 21, in Belem, the Amazonian town of Brazil. The COP marked the 10th anniversary of the Paris Agreemen... Read More
New Delhi, Nov. 15 -- In an earlier article, we had discussed Direct Air Capture (DAC) as one of the many ways of CO2 reduction. We saw that DAC involves the pulling in of large amounts of air using g... Read More
New Delhi, Nov. 8 -- Cement manufacturing is a large source of carbon dioxide emissions, contributing to 8 per cent of such emissions globally in 2024. Along with steel, fertilisers and plastics, it i... Read More