Category: Deep Dive
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Decarbonisation Is a Dependency Swap. India Should Price It.
TL;DR India’s energy transition replaces imported fuel with imported equipment, bought from fewer suppliers. India holds 10.4% of the world’s fossil reserves relevant to electricity and 2.8% of the critical material reserves; China holds a third of the latter. Seven years of customs data show India’s imports of four clean-technology components rising from $3.37 billion…
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The Anatomy of Agri-Food Shocks Visualised: Wars, Climate, and Food
The price of a loaf of bread or a bag of rice looks simple at the checkout. Behind it sits a much longer chain: natural gas turned into ammonia, phosphate and potash mined in a handful of countries, fertiliser shipped through narrow sea lanes, and weather deciding what finally grows in the field. The global…
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A Tale of Two Cities: Delhi Air Pollution Visualized
This exploration of five years of air quality data suggests that atmospheric stagnation plays a crucial role in the National Capital’s winter air pollution crisis. “It was the best of times; it was the worst of times…” Charles Dickens may have been writing about London and Paris, but the opening line of A Tale of…