Kalyan Chatterjee, Author at Tatsat Chronicle Magazine

The Dirty Secret Of Electric Vehicles That No One Talks About

April 13, 2024

As the world pushes for electric vehicles to contain global warming, the demand for metals like lithium, nickel and cobalt that will power the transition have exploded over the past decade. But of late serious doubts have begun to creep in about

Concentration Of Wealth In Hands Of Few Cause Of Burgeoning Inequality

Kalyan Chatterjee

March 13, 2024

Features

In George Orwell’s Animal Farm, a political allegory on the Russian Revolution, animals revolt against their cruel owner, Jones, and drive him out of his farm to replace him with their own regime on the founding maxim, ‘all animals are equal’. But,

AgriStack In Its Current Form Is A Half-Baked Idea

Kalyan Chatterjee

February 19, 2024

Deep Dive

Though the Green Revolution helped India achieve food self-sufficiency, it began to run out of steam by the mid-1990s when growth in population started to outstrip rise in agricultural productivity. Over the next decade or so it became clear that unless another

COP28: Is The World On Track In Curbing Climate Change?

Kalyan Chatterjee

January 12, 2024

Sustainability

Is the world on track to achieving the goal of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5°C of pre-industrial era temperature that was set by the 2015 Paris Agreement? That was the question that COP28 (Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC), held

BBNJ Treaty Set To Curtail Freedom Of The Seas For Conserving Marine Diversity

Kalyan Chatterjee

December 30, 2023

Sustainability

The recent adoption of the United Nations High Seas Treaty, also known as the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) Treaty, appears to have driven another nail in the coffin of the freedom of the seas principle that originated in the colonial era.

IUCN Red List: More Than A Tenth Of Animal Species In India Threatened With Extinction

Kalyan Chatterjee

December 9, 2023

Sustainability

There’s bad news for India on its biodiversity front. Just under 12% of its vertebrate animal species has entered the threatened category, according to the latest Red List of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN). The IUCN’s

BBIN Economic Corridor Has Potential To Transform Trade And Development In East And Northeast India

Kalyan Chatterjee

November 21, 2023

Deep Dive

Garment exports constitute more than four-fifths of Bangladesh’s total export of trade and services. Eighty-five percent of garments find markets in Europe and the United States, under the system of preferential trading for least developed countries. Together, exports to the European Union,

Net Zero Challenge: India Lacks A Policy Framework For Decommissioning Thermal Power Plants

Kalyan Chatterjee

October 20, 2023

Sustainability

India’s push towards net zero emissions by 2070 appears to have saddled it with a king-size dilemma. To start with, it must drastically reduce the use of coal for power generation. Yet, shutting down thermal power plants is easier said than done

Integrated Farming System Can Double Small Farmers’ Incomes, Says Agricultural Scientist

Kalyan Chatterjee

October 4, 2023

Sustainability

The government’s abortive attempt to introduce market-oriented reforms in the farm sector in the face of stiff opposition from farmers in 2020-21 has only served to highlight the crisis that has overtaken agriculture in India. But those who have the biggest stake

Latest Forest Law Amendment Will Lead To Destruction Of Carbon Sinks

Kalyan Chatterjee

September 29, 2023

Sustainability

Ever since British colonisers sought to make commercial use of Indian forests in the 19th century, there has been a constant tussle between those who view forests strictly as a materials resource and those who firmly believe that forests are organically tied

Kalyan Chatterjee

The Dirty Secret Of Electric Vehicles That No One Talks About

Concentration Of Wealth In Hands Of Few Cause Of Burgeoning Inequality

AgriStack In Its Current Form Is A Half-Baked Idea

COP28: Is The World On Track In Curbing Climate Change?

BBNJ Treaty Set To Curtail Freedom Of The Seas For Conserving Marine Diversity

IUCN Red List: More Than A Tenth Of Animal Species In India Threatened With Extinction

BBIN Economic Corridor Has Potential To Transform Trade And Development In East And Northeast India

Net Zero Challenge: India Lacks A Policy Framework For Decommissioning Thermal Power Plants

Integrated Farming System Can Double Small Farmers’ Incomes, Says Agricultural Scientist

Latest Forest Law Amendment Will Lead To Destruction Of Carbon Sinks

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