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Cape Town Water Crisis of 2018: Lessons we can learn from it

A serious water crisis plagued the city of Cape Town in early 2018 to the point that it was on the verge of becoming the first modern global city to run out of water. However, the city never reached to that point because of the strict measures introd....

July 06, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , Climate Change , water security , Water crisis , Drought , Day Zero , Water Police , Water Management Devices , Cape Town

Climate Change Summit: India Should Invest in Climate Action but Resist Western Pressure

Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Article

Coinciding with Earth Day, President Biden will be hosting a summit of world leaders to discuss climate change on 22-23nd April 2021. The purpose of the summit is to persuade the leaders to undertake ambitious goals to cut the greenhouse emissions an....

April 19, 2021 National Security and Strategic Studies , Climate Change , Article , India , China , Climate Change , PM Modi , renewable energy , Biden , CO2 emissions , John Kerry , Paris Agreement , Kyoto Protocol

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