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Anuraag Baruah

Joined: June 22, 2022
Articles: 64

Explainer

What is ‘Loss and Damage’ and why demand to include it in COP27 agenda grows

Over the last year or so, the world has witnessed extreme weather events due to climate change. The least developed, developing and other vulnerable countries have suffered serious loss and damage compared to the industrialized countries because of the disproportionate…

Anuraag Baruah
September 9, 2022

Explainer

Explained | Green Hydrogen and India’s ambitious decarbonizing plans

As India updates its Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) and submits it before the United Nations, the country plans to bet big next on ‘green hydrogen’ production to meet its climate targets and reduce dependency on energy imports. India is about…

Anuraag Baruah
September 8, 2022

Fact Check, Electric Vehicles

CO2 emitted in making an EV battery isn’t equal to driving a petrol car for 8 years

CLAIM Manufacturing the battery for one electric car produces the same amount of CO2 as running a petrol car for 8 years. FACT Production of an electric car battery emits CO2 equivalent to running a petrol car for 1 or…

Anuraag Baruah
September 5, 2022
1 Comment

Explainer, Greenwashing

Explained | What is Greenwashing and how is it related to Climate Change?

Greenwashing is using advertising and public messaging to seem more climate and environment-friendly than one really is. According to the Cambridge Dictionary, greenwashing is making “people believe that your company is doing more to protect the environment than it really…

Anuraag Baruah
September 2, 2022
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Fact Check, Denial

Post falsely claims Earth warmer than present for 83% of past 10,000 years

CLAIM The Earth has been warmer than the modern era for 83 percent of the past 10,000 years. FACT The annual global temperature at the present is the warmest in the past 10,000 years. WHAT THEY SAY Climate deniers are…

Anuraag Baruah
August 31, 2022
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Explainer

Explained | Vizhinjam Protest, Coastal Erosion and Climate Change

Vizhinjam, a small coastal town near Kovalam Beach and a little south of Kerala’s state capital Thiruvananthapuram has recently been grabbing headlines. It is the site for Adani Group’s ambitious ‘Vizhinjam International Transhipment Deepwater Multipurpose Seaport’ project. The project has…

Anuraag Baruah
August 29, 2022

Explainer

Explained | All you need to know about ‘COP27’

If you have recently seen the term ‘COP27’ on Twitter or on Facebook or anywhere else and were wondering what it is all about, this article is a must-read! What does the acronym ‘COP’ stand for? COP means ‘Conference Of…

Anuraag Baruah
August 26, 2022
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Feature

Increased ‘Monsoon Drought’ making Indian Farmers likely victims of Climate Change

In the first part of their Sixth Assessment Report released on August 9, 2021, experts of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said that even if a decreasing pattern in rainfall has been observed in the Indian Subcontinent, rainfall…

Anuraag Baruah
August 24, 2022

Feature, Renewable Energy

Climate Change likely to negatively impact India’s Renewable Energy Production

At a time when India, like many other countries of the world, is increasingly looking to adopt renewable energy to achieve its ‘climate targets’, a study has concluded that climate change itself could negatively impact the country’s renewable energy production…

Anuraag Baruah
August 22, 2022

Explainer

Carbon Market and India’s new Energy Bill

On August 9, 2022, the Lok Sabha passed the Energy Conservation (Amendment) Bill 2022 to amend the Energy Conservation Act 2001. The Bill is being termed as a facilitator for India to achieve its climate targets. Apart from various other…

Anuraag Baruah
August 20, 2022