On September 12, 2026, at the Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi, the leaders of the eleven-member BRICS grouping adopted, by consensus, a 140-paragraph document titled “Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability,” known as the New Delhi Declaration. Published at the end of the 18th BRICS Summit, hosted by India, it is the grouping’s most…
Climate discourse often treats decarbonisation like a universal one-pot recipe: add renewables, subtract fossil fuels, stir in net-zero targets, and serve before 2050. But for countries in the Global South such as India, still navigating poverty alleviation, industrial growth, and reliable energy access simultaneously, the transition cannot be copypasted from the Global North template. India…
The global plastics treaty is at risk of becoming a waste management agreement that ignores the root cause: rising plastic production. Without binding caps, pollution will continue to grow despite improved recycling efforts. What Was Promised and What Is Happening In March 2022, the UN Environment Assembly in Nairobi agreed to negotiate a legally binding…
The Farmer Who Cannot Wait for a Summit The paddy farmers follow 2 different calendars in the flat fields of Bihar, India. The farming calendar, ten months during which rains come, seeds get sowed and harvest is due. The other happens to be the disasters calendar. The time when years of floods wipe out the…
On a sweltering July afternoon in 2022, as India prepared to take over the G20 presidency, its newly appointed Sherpa, Amitabh Kant, stood at the center of New Delhi’s diplomatic storm. For the seasonedbureaucrat, it was less an initiation than a continuation – another milestone in a career defined by ambitious programs, high-stakes negotiations, and…
