Renewable gains, rising emissions and climate extremes made 2025 a year of contradiction, forcing a hard reassessment of what real environmental progress means.
World Environment Day 2025: With its scale, diversity, and ingenuity, India can lead the fight against plastic pollution by creating decentralised, eco-rooted, and cost-effective solutions driven by policy, awareness, collective action, and accountability.
Fast forward 2025: Tech-driven solutions will make identification and separation of valuable metals from discarded electronic items easier, enhancing the efficacy of recycling operations and decreasing environmental harm.
Rewind 2024: While international agreements emphasised the importance of sustainable and circular economies and reiterated the necessity of transitioning away from fossil fuels.