28th April 2022
Mains Question:
Q1. How does increase in disasters and displacement affects the women across the globe? Enumerate the need for empowering women and girls in the context of climate change (250 words)
Approach
- Introduction- increasing climate change and disasters
- Impact on society, especially women (explain climate change as serious aggravator of all types of gender-based violence against women)
- Challenges faced by women
- Lack of access to information and resources
- Lack of access to early warning system
- lack of safe shelter
- lack of access to bank accounts to protect savings from disasters
- unstable income
- Required measures (climate justice, and gender and social equity)
- Conclude accordingly
Editorials
India’s Green Hydrogen Policy released on February 17, 2022 has addressed several critical challenges such as open access, waiver of interstate transmission charges, banking, timebound clearances, etc., and is expected to further boost India’s energy transition.
India’s Energy Consumption
- Present Scenarios- India’s per capita energy consumption is about onethird of the global average and onetwelfth of the U.S.
- Future prospects- Increasing growth and economic prosperity would significantly increase India’s energy appetite furthering import dependence.
- Global Volatility-The RussiaUkraine crisis and the rollercoaster ride of energy prices from historic lows in 2020 to record highs in 2021, could pose a serious threat to our energy security, accentuating an unequivocal need to strive for energy independence.