Mint Climate Change Tracker

In the final episode of the second season, host Bibek Bhattacharya recaps his conversations with Indian climate change experts and talks about what he has learned this season.

In this episode, host Bibek Bhattacharya speaks with environmental scientist Dr Minal Pathak on climate change and cities, climate justice and much more. Plus monsoon floods hit western India. Also find out how much climate change will cost India.

Monsoon is here and so are devastating floods in Assam and Bihar. In this episode, host Bibek Bhattacharya speaks to water researcher Amitangshu Acharya on how our obsession with controlling rivers is leading to more floods.

In this episode, host Bibek Bhattacharya discusses India's first climate change assessment and speaks with climatologist Chirag Dhara about the report.

In this episode, host Bibek Bhattacharya speaks with climate policy expert Ulka Kelkar about what an Indian clean energy economy would look like.

In this episode, host, Bibek Bhattacharya speaks with conservation biologist Neha Sinha on environmental degradation, the importance of the Environment Impact Assessments, and the link between climate change and the destruction of nature.

In this episode, host Bibek Bhattacharya talks about the uneven monsoon rainfall and speaks with water expert Aditi Mukherji on India's groundwater, sustainable agriculture practices, and much more.

In this episode, host Bibek Bhattacharya speaks with Dr. Arunabha Ghosh of CEEW on India's energy future, mapping risks, international cooperation and much more.

How do you talk to children about climate change? Host Bibek Bhattacharya speaks with children's book writer and publisher Bijal Vachharajani to find out.

In this episode, host Bibek Bhattacharya speaks to climate journalist Aruna Chandrasekhar about media coverage of environment, vulnerable communities, and climate change.

In this episode, host Bibek Bhattacharya speaks to climate policy expert Navroz K. Dubash about India's post-pandemic economic recovery and using policy for climate resilience.

In this episode, host Bibek Bhattacharya speaks to climate scientist Roxy Mathew Koll to understand how climate change supercharged Cyclone Amphan, bleached coral reefs and brought locusts to India.

In this episode, host Bibek Bhattacharya talks to Shloka Nath of the India Climate Collaborative about the importance of the group effort, how the poorest are hit the hardest by both the pandemic and climate change, and how we can build resilience.

In the first episode of Season 2, host Bibek Bhattacharya talks about the effect of climate change on epidemic diseases and why our response to climate change should be guided by science.

In the final episode of Season 1, host Bibek Bhattacharya gives a shoutout to three of his favourite books on Climate Change and the environment as well as a podcast recommendation.

Some people say that climate change mitigation is too expensive. But if we don't spend now, we will have to pay a steeper cost later. In this episode, host Bibek Bhattacharya discusses the cost of Climate Change

When you hear someone say, "Climate Change is a hoax", this is climate change denial. In this episode Bibek Bhattacharya talks about how this works and how we can counter this with facts.

Winter snowfall sustains Himalayan communities as well as high mountain biodiversity. But Climate Change is playing havoc with seasonal cycles. Find out more with host Bibek Bhattacharya.

One of the biggest health crises posed by Climate Change is about mental health. Yet, this is something that is little studied, especially in India. Host Bibek Bhattacharya talks about the climate change blues.

We keep hearing that India's forest cover is going up. What does this mean? And what does this hide? In this episode, host Bibek Bhattacharya discusses the health of India's forests.

The global fashion industry is one of the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases and a threat to biodiversity. Here's what the industry is doing to change things.

It's 2020, and time to look forward with the hope that we will be able to beat the Climate Crisis after all. In this episode, host Bibek Bhattacharya discusses two UN summits later this year, where governments have to come up with a plan to prevent runaway Climate Change. Where there's a will there's hope.

2019 has been a momentous year for the climate crisis. This year we found out just how much time we have, we saw the effects of global heating all around the world, we saw governments dither on delivering a crisis plan, and we learnt that citizens' protests are the only way to make governments halt this crisis. In the final episode of the year, host Bibek Bhattacharya looks back at the year gone by, and how the things he learnt changed him.

In this episode, we look how nations that top the carbon emission charts are failing to cut their emissions.

In the latest episode of Mint Climate Change Tracker, Bibek Bhattacharya looks at what governments around the world are doing to tackle the climate crisis. Short answer: not much.

What are Greenhouse Gas Emissions, and how are they wrecking our planet? In the latest episode of the Mint Climate Change Tracker, host Bibek Bhattacharya tracks how in just 60 years, industrial emissions have brought about a climate crisis, and what we must do to stop it.

The first thing we need to do to tackle climate change is to change the way we talk about it. Let's call it what it really is, a crisis. In this episode, Bibek Bhattacharya @sarvatathagatha reveals why The Oxford Dictionary has made 'climate emergency' its word of the year, and how just a 1 degree celsius increase in global temperatures is wrecking the planet.