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This paper analyzes the viability of having green courts with dedicated environmental jurisdiction, separate from the general judicial system. In doing so, an effort has been made to take the National Green Tribunal (NGT) of India as a reference point for discussing the advantages and disadvantages of green courts. While acknowledging that both pros and cons of green courts may not specifically overlap with those of specialized courts, there are certain points having reasonable differentia as...

The 2022 Declaration should promote tax regimes based on an approach that looks to reestablish consumer, industry, and supply chain behavior to reflect the true environmental cost of that action. Human beings have exploited the environment for too long, and the solution lies in the market dynamics of taxation and incentivization in favor of sustainable living.

Impact of the Global Pandemic on the Environment and the way forward.

Looking forward, the aim must be to restore the citizens’ trust so that when future national problems arise the people get associated with the campaign out of their will and not compulsion.

International interventions are needed to protect wildlife during political instability.

After its first session, the second European Citizens’ Panel (ECP) of the Conference on the Future of Europe faces the risk of separating EU values from each other via locating them in different deliberation streams. Yet, promising signs of an integrated approach focusing on what needs protection to retain the existing standard and where there is room for progress and innovation are present in the momentary outcomes.

Ending the US dollar’s convertibility to gold (at $35 to an ounce of gold at the time) dissolved the centuries-old link between ‘money’ and ‘precious metals’.

The 1991 and post-1991 period is understood as part of the ‘pro-market’ growth trajectory

We need a more comprehensive set of policies to address the peculiar kind of inflation that India is facing.

We need a more comprehensive set of policies to address the peculiar kind of inflation that India is facing

A singular, disentangled macro-approach may push the economy into a deeper recessionary space.

The pandemic complications will require a strong response that will necessarily involve a multi-faceted approach.

The focus is on providing food grains to the very poor as against supporting that with more funding for existing nutrition-focussed welfare programmes.

The slum dwellers of Janata Vasahat, Pune's largest slum at the foothills of Parvati Hill, have since 1974 undergone a tumultuous journey in retaining their homeland against state-led attempts to rehabilitate them.

The need for making our leaders ‘morally’ responsible and publicly accountable for their actions remains vital.

We require a healthy system of morality to be entrenched in the core conduct of an able political leadership in our fragmented and ethnically diverse nation.

Even during the harshest lockdown periods, the authorities paid little attention to how children in schools were being impacted by the pandemic.

Because these iterant vendors of folk arts are unable to travel to carry out their traditional occupations, their generations-old customs and practices are at risk of being endangered.

The inability of his administration to provide safe passage to thousands of Afghans who helped the US – and allied forces – during the war is just one aspect of the troubling story.