Andhra Pradesh's Community-Based Natural Farming (APCNF) defies the popular belief that chemical fertilisers guarantee better yields. According to a comparative study of prevalent farming practices in the state, conducted over…
Instead of building new coal-based thermal power plants, NTPC should acquire stranded thermal plants that will meet India's short-term energy security needs and will improve the balance sheet of lenders,…
Solar energy has been a significant contributor to India’s energy transition. Over the past decade, the cumulative global capacity of solar photovoltaic (PV) has reached approximately 942 GW. But how…
Public sector oil and gas companies in India are actively embracing emission-reduction strategies such as Carbon Capture, Utilisation, and Storage (CCUS) as India targets net zero by 2070. CCUS is…
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has focussed on climate change as the primary theme in its Report on Currency and Finance (RCF) for 2022-23, a theme-based annual report on…
With an increasing trend of commercial banks launching ‘green deposit’ schemes for retail investors, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has released a framework to shape the emerging market, including…
Given the growth of the renewable energy sector in India and its ambitious goals in the coming years, the question looms about regulation of the sector. Currently, to push the…
One of the world’s largest work guarantee programmes, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Scheme (MGNREGS), also offers climate co-benefits. The work offered under it has the potential to mitigate…
India's carbon market is gradually taking shape with the latest push from the Ministry of Power which released a draft of the Carbon Credit Trading Scheme (CCTS). The draft establishes…
Certain categories of forest land will no longer be legally protected, as proposed by the Forest (Conservation) Amendment Bill, 2023, that the union government introduced in Lok Sabha on March 29.…
In late February, the Indian Institute of Wheat and Barley Research (IIWBR), a leading scientific institute for wheat, released an advisory recommending farmers in India to spray potassium chloride on…
Though the Government of India denies the need for a uniform policy on a just transition away from coal, the push for such a policy, from experts, is getting stronger.…
This year marks 30 years since India began decentralising governance and empowering local bodies in rural and urban areas through constitutional amendments. As part of this process, one of the…
Indore’s Municipal Corporation (IMC) received an overwhelming response from institutional and corporate investors when it issued a green bond last week. This development set a positive tone for similar resource-scarce…
When the union budget was unveiled last week, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman cited "green growth" as one of the government's major priorities. The 2023-24 budget was widely regarded as India's…
Union Minister of Finance Nirmala Sitharaman reiterated 'green' 23 times and 'sustainable' nine times in her budget speech on February 1. She pegged 'green growth' as one among four opportunities…
As the host of the G20 presidency, India makes a strong case for green finance for developing countries through its Economic Survey tabled in the Parliament on January 31. It…
About four months ago, in September 2022, a state government report confirmed that Joshimath, a town in Uttarakhand, situated at an altitude of 1,875 metres, is sinking. Last week, a…
Moving a step ahead towards boosting investor confidence in financing climate action, the Government of India (GoI) has developed a framework for Sovereign Green bonds (SGrB), in which it defines…
After a brief pause during COVID-19-related lockdowns, global carbon emission levels have been rising again. Carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels in 2022 are estimated to reach a record level,…
