Climate Emergency
2025
2024
4 Ways to Use Carbon Dioxide to Curb Global Warming
From bioenergy to oil recovery, construction materials to clean fuel… here are four ways to utilise carbon dioxide.

Is UK's North Sea Drilling Plan a Sustainable Solution? An Impact Assessment Report
The UK's North Sea oil strategy grapples with immediate energy benefits versus long-term environmental and economic costs, amid energy security and climate concerns.

2023
Nepal's National Parks: A Conservation Success Shadowed by Local Struggles
In Nepal, majestic national parks thrive as sanctuaries for wildlife, but for the local communities grappling with restricted access, human rights abuses and the stark reality of living on the edge of wilderness, the path to harmonious coexistence remains fraught with challenges.

Redefining Forest Boundaries: Sunil Pariyar on the Dalit Struggle and DANAR's Impact in Nepal
Sunil Kumar Pariyar talks about DANAR and the struggles and triumphs of the Dalit community as they strive to reclaim their rightful place in Nepal’s natural resource management.

Engineering Solutions to Combat Climate Change: 4 Groundbreaking Approaches
As the effects of climate change continue to worsen, learn about four groundbreaking engineering solutions that are providing hope for a more sustainable future.

Unlocking the Power of a Thriving Bioeconomy
The bioeconomy offers a promising solution for mitigating climate change and promoting sustainability, but only with smart policy interventions.

4 Ways to Combat the Negative Impacts of Global Warming on Biodiversity
A multifaceted approach to mitigating the negative impacts of global warming and human activities on ecosystems

2022
Strategies for achieving decarbonisation in consonance with energy security
Rising global temperatures, energy insecurity, and geopolitical tensions are pushing nations to adopt sustainable, home-grown solutions. By combining renewable power, advanced storage methods, clean fuels, and nuclear energy, countries can decarbonise while safeguarding their energy supply.

How to combat forest fires: causes and 4 solutions
Forest fires are accelerating at a staggering pace. Here are four measures that, if implemented, could help us prevent forest fires and protect pristine ecosystems.

3 ingenious solutions to abate the overexploitation of water
The water crisis is a humongous issue that affects everyone. But what are some ways we could reduce humanity's overexploitation of water?

How to Make Transportation Green? 3 Alternatives to Internal Combustion Engines
Internal combustion engines may be at the heart of the pollution caused by our daily transportation vehicles. But how can we avoid them and are there any alternatives?

Making environment and development go hand in hand
In the backdrop of global warming, habitat loss and outbreak of zoonotic diseases merely ecosystem conservation would not prove sufficient unless bolstered by environmental remediation and restoration.

Pissing in the sacred brook: humanity’s abuse of water
As life-sustaining water dwindles, the oceans are rising due to the melting ice caps that are warming because of climate change. Indeed, for many of us, it may well be a case of there being water everywhere, with not a drop of it to drink!

Policy Making: How to Achieve Net Zero
Offering a brilliant look at technologies that can help tackle climate change.

Climate refugees in the modern world
By the year 2050, more than 200 million people will become classified as climate refugees. Climate change has accelerated the rates of human migration, and this effect will continue to intensify.

'Standing up for the planet': An interview with climate activist Partho Chatterjee
I am Partho Pratim Chatterjee, a citizen of India and a member of UN-aligned. I hail from the mineral rich eastern state of Jharkhand.

Machines for the environment: 10 Simple machines that made our lives more sustainable
Your home appliances used to be slow, smelly and awful for the environment. Thanks to new technology and the modern machine things have changed: here are 10 new tech that has helped us increase our efficiency and make our lives more sustainable.

Poems for a Better World: An Ode to Environmental Restoration
Partho Pratim Chatterjee's submission during UN-aligned 2021 poetry competition

2021
"There is too much stupidity around": The UN's Climate Change Report
The Sixth Assessment Report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was published on August 9, 2021. The Report paints a grim picture of the planet’s health owing to human induced climate change and rising temperatures.

UN is failing to combat Climate Change
Climate change is the world’s biggest collective enemy, which threatens to destroy the very planet that we all live on. Whether it be rising sea levels, global warming, record-breaking temperatures, melting ice caps or an overall shift in severity of natural disasters, we as humankind need to strategise together for immediate solutions.

Seven Ways to Create a Healthy Economy with Kate Raworth - Podcast
Economist Kate Raworth's 'Doughnut' model provides a visual framework for a healthy economy, outlining a safe and just space for humanity to thrive between its social and planetary boundaries.

The Doughnut Economy: "humanity to thrive sandwiched between its inner and outer limits"
Over the last few centuries, economics has been dominated by a doctrine of perpetual growth. The prevailing idea was that there were no limits to how much we could exploit the earth and its resources.

How cultivated meat can save the planet
Cultivated meat will present a futuristic alternative to the callous, unwieldy and unnecessarily wasteful way animals are farmed today.

Accidentally Vegan Feature?
If you’ve pondered veganism but haven’t yet followed through, it may be that you are put off by the myth of the diet being restricted. As with any lifestyle change, slow and steady tends to lead to longevity. It is much better to gradually cut animal products from your diet permanently than trying to be a strict vegan for a month, falling off the wagon, and being put off enough to never try it again.

2020
Waste and Mismanagement: The Devil in the Detail That is Back to Haunt us!
Creation often leaves a hidden trail of waste. Unlike nature’s cycle, much of our artificial refuse resists renewal, threatening the environment. This article highlights the overlooked role of waste in creation and explores creative solutions to turn it from problem to asset.

An end to the “Fairytales of Eternal Economic Growth”
On Thursday 27th February, a British appeals court ruled that a planned expansion of Heathrow airport is unconstitutional because the planning process was not in accordance with the government’s own climate policies set out in the Paris Agreement. Lords Justice Lindblom, Singh and Haddon-Cave ruled that when setting out their support for the measures in their National Policy Statement (NPS), the government did not take adequate account of its contribution to the Paris Agreement on climate change.

“Klaatu barada nikto”
These words are taken from the classic 1951 film directed by Robert Wise: The Day the Earth Stood Still. The film, based on a short story by Harry Bates, is about an alien, Klaatu, who comes to earth in order to warn humanity of its pending obliteration by an interplanetary police force, unless it mends its destructive ways.

2019
Japan and its nuclear waste problem
Nuclear leaks are probably among the most horrifying accidents possible due to their long-term detrimental damage to life and environment. Eight years after the nuclear leak from Japan’s Fukushima power plant, local residents, many of whom are fishermen, are still suffering the consequences.

UN-aligned’s view on the climate protests: the days of self-serving governments are over
As CO2 emissions hit a 10-million-year high, people in 185 countries unite across continents to protest political inaction on this urgent crisis.