National Security and Strategic Studies
Climate Change
Discussion on the Final Installment of the IPCC's Sixth Assessment Report (AR6)

In this episode of VIF Podcast, PK Khup Hangzo, Associate Fellow and Heena Samant, Research Associate discusses the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) fourth and final instalment of its sixth assessment report (AR6) titled...

Yamuna Biodiversity Park: An Ideal Instrument for Environmental Sustainability in Urban Spaces

In an era of climate emergency, the world is looking for desperate measures to tackle the issue of climate change. Apart from mitigation, the climate change discourse has now moved towards adaptation and nature-based solutions. Nature-based...

Saving the Tiger

The Indian Express reported recently that Project Tiger, which was launched in 1973 to conserve the wild tiger population in India, completes fifty years in 2023. This is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme of the Ministry of Environment, Forests and...

Geo-engineering: A Fringe Idea Whose Time Has Come?

Introduction

On 1 October 2022, the US government announced a Five-Year Plan to study the controversial and seemingly sci-fi notion of deflecting the Sun’s rays before they hit Earth in order to temporarily reduce the effects of global...

Climate Change: A Review of 2022 and Projections for 2023

Over the past year, the impact of climate change has escalated significantly. The threats emanating from this existential crisis are increasingly multifaceted and interlocking in nature and continue to test the capability of states and...

COP 27 and its Outcomes

In this VIF podcast, PK Khup Hangzo, Associate Fellow and Heena Samant , Research Assistant at VIF discuss COP 27 and its outcomes. The episode is conversational and flags both the positive as well as negative outcomes of COP 27 which took place...

COP 27: High Stakes, Low Expectations

Introduction

The 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP 27, will take place at Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt from 6 to 18 November. The main aim of the conference is to spur action towards achieving the world’s collective...

Innovative Strategies for Arresting Environmental Degradation while Addressing Debt Problems of the States

Abstract

At the COP-26 summit in Glasgow, Prime Minister Modi had committed India to some bold environmental targets, to achieve which the Centre must work with the State where the economic activities take place that also take their...

Impact of Climate Change on the Blue Economy of the Indian Ocean Region: Case Study of the Fisheries Sector

Introduction

Over the last decade, the concept of blue economy, which refers to sustainable economic development through proper utilization of marine resources, has become widespread including in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR). The Indian...

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