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APPRAISAL 08
• Sunita Narain: On the pandemic, impact on children, inequality and climate change
PERSPECTIVE 12
• Devinder Sharma: On guaranteed income support to farmers
• Anumita Roychowdhury: On electric vehicles, public mobility and net-zero targets
CHAPTER-1: STATE OF THE STATES 22
• India's rank in SDGs performance
• How states perform on SDGs
• 2022: The year of 17 national development goals and the state of progress
CHAPTER-2: HABITAT 50
• State of housing for all target
• Rental housing as a solution for affordable housing
• How to make houses climate appropriate
• Ventilation and the war for healthy living space
CHAPTER-3: INDUSTRY 10
• State of dirty industrial fuel
• How to regulate industrial use of water
• State of pollution regulatory agencies
CHAPTER-4 : WASTE 102
• What we know about safe disposal of sanitary pads
• Why deliberate shortening the life of electronic products is a new e-waste management crisis
• State of single-use plastic pollution
• DATA DIVE: Biomedical waste and COVID-19 waste burden
CHAPTER-5 : IN FOCUS-INEQUALITY 150
• State of income and wealth inequality
• Inequality in setting development priority
• Energy inequality
CHAPTER-6 : SPECIAL-COV1D-19 114
• The pandemic situation as it enters 3rd year
• On loss of income and employment
• INFOGRAPHICS: The pandemic and its impacts
CHAPTER-7 : FOREST AND BIODIVERSITY 222
• Global pledge on deforestation
• Amendments to the Forest Conservation Act
• State of trees in India
• DATA DIVE: Wildlife crimes, legal wildlife trade, environmental crimes
CHAPTER-8 : SPECIAL-CLIMATE CHANGE 258
• State of climate; extreme weather in India and the world
• State of net-zero targets
• On carbon budget, carbon sinks and developments in COP26
• INFOGRAPHICS: Connected disasters
CHAPTER-9 : MIGRATION 324
• State of climate-induced displacement
• On India's emerging migration policy
• Sea-level rise and displacement
• DATA DIVE: Displacement and climate change
CHAPTER-10 : AIR POLLUTION 354
• State of the national clean air programme
• On India's e-vehicle drive
• DATA DIVE: Deaths due to air pollution
CHAPTER-11 : HEAL TH AND FOOD 382
• Global deal on food systems
• Our diet's carbon footprint
• Prevalence of anaemia
• DATA DIVE: On latest NFHS
CHAPTER-12: RENEWABLE ENERGY 420
• State of solar power
• State of wind power
• State of hydrogen as fuel
CHAPTER-13: RURAL DEVELOPMENT 440
• On minimum rural wage and the economy
• MGNREGA and quality of assets created
• State of access to credit in rural India
• DATA DIVE: Farmer suicide; agricultural households; farm income;
and cost of cultivation