Arpitha Kodiveri 🏳️‍🌈 long-term research and practice as an environmental lawyer is coming out as 'Governing Forests'. The book is empirically rich -- making a key intervention in natural resource conflict and rights generative of tension.

Congratulations🌻

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Read this piece on Indian classroom and BJP’s policies by Gaurav Mukherjee

🚨 New report for African Arguments detailing how modelled climate action in #IPCC reports violate principles of equity by placing a disproportionate burden on poorer countries. Global South scientists & other experts are now calling for 'a paradigm shift'

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🚨Last month, African Group of Negotiators Experts Support (AGNES) held a meet where they raised concerns about inequities in #IPCC Integrated Assessment Modelling. Other Global South scientists & experts have also pointed out issues. For African Arguments
africanarguments.org/2024/04/modell…

Economic damage from #climatechange will impact everyone - but not equally. Permanent average loss of income worldwide in US and Europe will be about 11% by mid-century while in Africa and South Asia it will be 22%: new Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK study #ClimateJustice theguardian.com/environment/20…

Read my ground report for BehanBox on state sponsored violence and the impact of anti- Maoist war on Bastar’s Adivasi women behanbox.com/2024/04/18/tho…

So incredibly excited for Arpitha Kodiveri 🏳️‍🌈’s book to come out. Best believe I’ll read it in one sitting!
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🚨 A power sector lobby has often swayed Modi govt policy: From nudging govt to open up forests against govt experts’ advice to using firms to pressure govt into relaxing anti-pollution norms. Its members & linked entities gave BJP over ₹500 cr via bonds. reporters-collective.in/trc/corporate-…

Climate change discourse in India – both at the governmental level and civil society – tend to focus disproportionately on technology, statistics and techno-legal jargon and rarely on rights.

The court’s recognition of the role of litigation in addressing climate change is crucial given the recent approach of the government in viewing environmental litigation as an hindrance in the path of economic development and energy security.

The Supreme Court’s latest ruling on the protection and conservation of the Great Indian Bustard has implications beyond the facts of the case
thewire.in/environment/ho…

Whenever I hear of striking a 'balance' between ecology & development, I know who stands to be screwed. All that was sought here was that power lines be taken underground because numerous birds, incl highly endangered species like GIB were dying. Sad state
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Supreme Court's first significant decision on the need to factor in climate change in the broader concept of Right to Life under Article 21 and Right to Equality under Article 14.
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They’ve gone ahead and saffronised the country and it’s unbearable

A superb in-depth article by our alumnus Vaishnavi Rathore on Bangalore's water crisis in Scroll.in scroll.in/article/106581… - with Azim Premji University

Revealed: Modi gov't overruled the environment ministry and mining experts to handover a coal block in one of India's densest forests to Adani group. After power producers' assoc, of which Adani is member, lobbied for it. By the reporters' collective mem Shreegireesh Jalihal reporters-collective.in/trc/coal-block…

Yes, this is indeed a landmark Judgment which also questions arbitrary exemptions. The Judgment will have implications on the Forest Conservation Amendment Act, 2023