Sanyam Bajaj, an alumnus of the Hertie School’s Master of Public Policy program, recently hosted a photo exhibit on climate change, but he did more than display striking images and montages. Bajaj used the exhibition… [Read more]
Climate Crisis & Environment
This section covers the climate crisis, environment, and energy systems, especially focusing on recommendations for governance in regard to climate crisis adaptation and mitigation policies.
Tunisia’s Green Energy Transition: Who bears the costs of climate adaptation?
Although Tunisia is positioned as a pioneer in renewable energy in North Africa, this green transition poses complex challenges for rural communities, especially women farmers facing migration and economic insecurity. The Tunisian experience reveals that… [Read more]
Decarbonising Industry sector in India: Current trajectory and challenges
India’s $3 trillion economy is expected to grow about seven times to $22 trillion by 2070, the year by which India plans to be carbon neutral. As of now, emissions are increasing with an increase… [Read more]
We need a World Environment Organisation: Cynicism is not the answer.
History sometimes speaks loudest in silence, as on June 5, 2022, in Nairobi. Across continents, riverbanks cracked with thirst from unprecedented droughts, glaciers crashed into heaving oceans, and at dusk, the sun descended on another… [Read more]
The World Environment Organisation: Do we need a Ministry for the Future?
As one of the worst heatwaves in memory strikes India in these weeks, the absence of a single authoritative UN agency that deals with global climate change is jarring. The establishment of a World Environmental… [Read more]
A World Environment Organization? Not worth the trouble.
We are asking of our planet more than it can possibly bear. Around the world, people are demanding change, and countries are committing to ever more concerted climate action. Against this backdrop, calls to create… [Read more]
Can Circular Economy Solve the Pollution Problem in India’s Cities?
India’s economic growth, coupled with its urbanisation and swelling population is putting severe pressure on cities’ limited resources. With some of the most polluted cities in the world and increased waste management issues, India needs to adopt circular economy initiatives. Sadly, circularity… [Read more]
Awash with Worries: Climate Concerns in the U.S.
Between May and June 2020, many people took a break from pandemic routines and election doomscrolling to watch the biblical fires that roared across the West Coast of the U.S. Although U.S. citizens are less concerned with environmental problems than their G20 counterparts, more and more U.S. Americans are worried about the climate, and for good reason. From urban environmental plight, unseasonable rain in the Midwest breadbasket, diminishing crop yields, and larger and more frequent hurricanes barraging the Southeast, to droughts and wildfires plaguing the Southwest – the scale of U.S. environmental and climate catastrophes in 2020 was immense.
Taking Shell to Climate Court: Could a Judge Force the Oil Giant to Change its Ways?
This piece is part of a novel collaboration between The Governance Post and The Paris Globalist, the international affairs magazine by students at Sciences Po in Paris, France. Does a private corporation have an obligation to prevent… [Read more]
The Global Scramble for Groundwater: Why Europe should protect resource sovereignty
To avoid domestic food price spikes during COVID-19 lockdowns, major agricultural producers such as Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia temporarily capped exports of staple crops. The resulting market distortions underscored import-dependent countries’ vulnerabilities to food supply… [Read more]