TLF ALTERNATIVES   WATER HYACINTH AS A RESOURCE: DEVELOPING KNOWHOW, VIABLE PROJECTS AND DEPLOYMENT MODELS By Girijaa Upadhyay April 2024 Recently Water Hyacinth (WH) has been in the news close to home, both for its adverse effects on the local habitat and health as well as its defiance  to efforts for its physical removal and […]

Time to revisit the Nuremburg Code? By Girijaa Upadhyay There is wide engagement in various media and forums with the advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI), its promising interface with various aspects of humans and society in general. Simultaneously the negative effects of platforms on human psyche, behavior, moods and social engagements continue to be documented. […]

By G.Upadhyay On the Finance front once again, the issue of Loss and Damage reparation/ compensation on account of Climate Change is expected to come to the fore at the forthcoming  Sharm el-Sheikh COP27 Climate Change Conference. Some thoughts regarding Climate Finance which follow are  i) the need for Developed countries to act on a […]

( Key roles of the proposed Financial Institution(FI)- engage strategically with technology and innovation funding and financing, scale quantum of climate finance for the range of requirements, reset priorities for institutional support in consultation with IPCC and technologists, address global food security- scarcity and shortages, water and shelter; accelerate alternative technology/process solutions in compressing timelines […]

I refer to two articles on space debris  that have appeared in last couple of days  which I use to highlight my principle concerns about all explorations, whether of new technology and materials or  Outer Space activities. My earlier pieces on Space explorations wanted to highlight precisely this and other impact concerns. (links at the […]

A job in finance would mean a steady, settled, reliable and dependable professional lifestyle. The on-going pandemic (threat of third wave looms large) has snatched so many jobs.  Just like in other industries, AI and machine learning are entering the scene and causing great disruption in what used to be one of the most stable […]

So much is being written by experts and think tanks on the COVID 19 pandemic and its likely impacts on various aspects of our multifaceted and multidimensional world and existence. Pandemics have happened before – but perhaps not at such a global scale or with such high rates of transmission or so baffling a character. The World is […]

The words of Sir Richard Branson on this occasion… “I was once a child with a dream looking up to the stars. Now I’m an adult in a spaceship looking down to our beautiful Earth. To the next generation of dreamers: if we can do this, just imagine what you can do.” “I have dreamt […]

The Second in the series of travel to edge of space…overview effect and issues still remain… Most of us might have watched Jeff Bezos Blue Origin’s New Shepherd Flight (on Amazon Prime video). Though it was a trite shrill, more about the thrill than the (immense) skills that have gone into it, and then realized […]

There are  interesting and comprehensive studies on Impact of Covid 19 on education such as OECD’s, Dr. Pravat Kumar Jena of IGNOU’s research paper on India impacts available on Researchgate to name a few , ranging from student debt to issues around digital learning and teaching  . Distance learning had already gone digital (such as […]