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Citizen participation in Ghana’s gold mining sector: A ray of hope for 'galamseyers'? By: Md Mostak Al Farhad Kenya’s environmental regulator ready to reconsider EIA processing fees due to financial crunch By: Md Mostak Al Farhad Protests over toxic gold mining at Nile: Will there be truce in Sudan By: Md Mostak Al Farhad Kabwe lead poisoning: Fresh evidence filed against mining company on behalf of over 100,000 victims By: Susan Chacko Water, Africa’s Gold: South Africa seeks to increase water through recycling, reuse By: Engela Duvenage COVID-19: Ethiopia stares at water crisis By: Shreya Verma The gold rush By: Srestha Banerjee African countries need to clean up their act on industrial pollution By: Shreya Verma

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Did the G20 deliver ambitious climate & energy outcomes?By: Trishant Dev, Khushboo Pareek, Avantika Goswami World not on track to meet long-term climate targets, shows largest-ever UN assessmentBy: Tamanna Sengupta Growing BRICS alliance signals break in western hegemony, call for fairness in climate actionBy: Khushboo Pareek Is climate litigation the way forward for accountability and climate action?By: Khushboo Pareek G20 climate & energy talks end in disarray, unable to reach consensus on climate actionBy: Trishant Dev Long-awaited norms to tackle carbon market irregularities fall short, lack efficacyBy: Trishant Dev Article 6.2 of Paris Agreement in action: A growing number of countries are entering carbon market partnershipsBy: Trishant Dev Explaining climate clubs: Rich countries are turning to climate, industrial deals with ‘friendly’ countriesBy: Ananya Anoop Rao, Avantika Goswami Paris finance meet: Key takeaways from a summit that showed the scale of the challenge aheadBy: Avantika Goswami, Ananya Anoop Rao Paris finance meet: Momentum builds for polluter taxes to fund green transitionBy: Ananya Anoop Rao Paris finance meet: What is the Summit for a New Global Financing Pact about?By: Avantika Goswami Paris finance meet: Barbados envoy proposes tool to make green finance affordableBy: Ananya Anoop Rao DTE Reportage: Coverage of the Subsidiary Bodies 58 climate conference in BonnBy: Akshit Sangomla, Avantika Goswami, Rohini Krishnamurthy, Seema Prasad, Trishant Dev, Ananya Anoop Rao, Parth Kumar High road to Dubai COP28: 6th Technical Expert Dialogue on New Collective Quantified Goal held at BonnBy: Ananya Anoop Rao

Make auto industry deliver on its promise

Glitz and glamour dazzled. The lure of jazzy cars at the recently concluded auto show stirred up mass hysteria, clogged roads, brought the city to a near halt. The dream sellers had them all entrapped. But the dream had a green wrapper - small cars, SUVs meeting the most stringent us norms, electric vehicles, hybrid cars, even CNG and diesel hybrid buses! The show is over. But serious questions persist. Need urgent answers. The show is definitely not over…

Making water-excreta accounts

How will India supply drinking water in cities? Many argue the problem is not inadequate water. The problem is the lack of investment in building infrastructure in cities and the lack of managerial capacities to operate the systems, once created. This line of thought then leads logically to policy reform, to invite private investment and hand over public water utilities to private parties to operate.

Excreta's economy: a true experience

Every society must understand how the excreta it produces is managed. It teaches us many things about water, about waste, about technologies to clean, economics and politics: of who is subsidised to defecate in our societies. But, most importantly, it teaches us humility. We know so little about our own world. If we knew better, we would understand why we are failing to ensure our present and why we will all need to do things differently, if we want to safeguard our future.

From water to water

Look out of the window the next time you travel by road or by train anywhere in India. Hit a human settlement, and you will see, heaps of plastic coloured garbage apart, pools of dirty black water and drains that go nowhere. They go nowhere because we have forgotten a basic fact: if there are humans, there will be excreta. Indeed, we have also forgotten another truth about the so-called modern world: if there is water use, there will be waste. Roughly 80 per cent of the water that reaches households flows out as waste.