A deep dive into AI energy consumption, data center power demand, and the carbon footprint of AI – and what green computing can realistically fix. Somewhere in the time it takes you to read this sentence, generative AI tools around the world have processed thousands of prompts. Multiply that by every minute of every day,…
With over 70 percent of global emissions tied to cities, the new BRICS Urban Mobility Hub and Voluntary Principles for Climate-Resilient Urban Infrastructure aim to help fast-growing Global South cities electrify transit and flood-proof their infrastructure together. Key Takeaways Cities Are Where the Climate Fight Is Actually Won or Lost More than 70 percent of…
India’s BRICS chairship has launched a Network on Digital Agriculture, the BRICS AGRIN seed-sharing initiative, and new agroecology centres – a coordinated bet that AI and traditional farming knowledge together can climate-proof Global South food systems. Key Takeaways Farming on a Changing Climate’s Terms Climate change is not an abstract future risk for the world’s…
The New Development Bank is scaling up local-currency lending for green infrastructure – a shift that could remove one of the biggest hidden costs slowing down solar, wind, and hydrogen projects across the Global South. Key Takeaways The Hidden Cost That Stalls Green Projects: Currency Risk A solar park or green-hydrogen plant can pencil out…
The New Delhi Declaration puts critical minerals at the centre of BRICS climate strategy, warning against the weaponisation of technology and pushing Global South nations up the clean-energy value chain. Key Takeaways Sun and Wind Are Not the Only Inputs the Energy Transition Needs It is easy to think of the clean-energy transition purely in…
How the BRICS Digital Centre of Excellence for Smart Grids and Energy Storage, launched under India’s 2026 chairship, aims to turn intermittent solar and wind power into round-the-clock reliable electricity across the Global South. Key Takeaways Why Grids, Not Just Generation, Decide the Energy Transition Solar panels and wind turbines get most of the applause…
An evidence-based briefing on ice-rock avalanches, permafrost degradation, and compound hazard chains in the Hindu Kush Himalaya. I. Introduction: A Paradigm Shift in Himalayan Hazard Science For three decades, the dominant mental model of Himalayan disaster risk has centred on one image: a glacial lake, swollen by decades of ice melt, bursting through its earthen…
Somewhere in Virginia, Texas, or Ireland right now, a server room the size of a shopping mall is drawing enough electricity to power a small city – just to train the next generation of AI models. That single sentence captures the tension defining the energy sector in 2026: the same technology sector that promised to…
Extreme heat is no longer a once-a-decade event that farmers ride out and forget. It is becoming the operating condition of modern agriculture. A joint 2026 report from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) found that extreme heat now threatens the livelihoods of roughly 1.23 billion people worldwide and…
Seven months into 2026 and the world’s cities have already lived through a preview of what climate scientists have been warning about for a decade: extreme weather that arrives faster, hits harder, and breaks records that were supposed to last generations. A summer town in South Australia hit 49.5°C. Snow drifts in northern Japan buried…
