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A man navigates the waterways through the Picharavam mangroves, collecting wild halophytes have taken root alongside the salt-tolerant mangrove trees following restoration near Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

Why feasibility matters for land use projects in India [Commentary]

Sayanta Ghosh, J.V. Sharma 7 Jul 2026
Labourers work in an iron and steel factory on the outskirts of Jammu. (AP Photo/Channi Anand, File)

Trade liberalisation meets carbon tariffs as India eyes EU market [Commentary]

Soutrik Goswami, Isha Sharma 30 Jun 2026
A labourer prepares steel furniture at a factory. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

Financing the green shift remains a hurdle for steel MSMEs

Rohini Krishnamurthy 24 Jun 2026
A woman balances a water can on her head as people collect water from a mobile water tanker in drought-stressed New Delhi. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Urban finance reforms gather pace, but key gaps persist [Commentary]

Ravikant Joshi 21 Apr 2026
A woman looks at a coal plant in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

The climate finance numbers did not add up in 2025

Kundan Pandey 29 Dec 2025

India sharpens equity and finance demands as COP30 draft text raises new concerns

Manish Chandra Mishra 21 Nov 2025

A radical new proposal to raise funds for climate damages

Simrin Sirur 18 Nov 2025

The Green Credits Programme needs to move beyond its tree-centric approach [Commentary]

Gautam Aredath 23 Oct 2025

Green credit rules tweaked to favour canopy cover, remove trade provision

Simrin Sirur 4 Sep 2025
Ground truthing exercises for forest degradation mapping, integrating field data with satellite-based analysis. Image courtesy of TERI

Global REDD+ standards fail local forests [Commentary]

Sayanta Ghosh, Jitendra Vir Sharma 20 Aug 2025
Underground coal miners before entering the pit of Bachra coal mines in Jharkhand. While private investors are expected to fund clean energy infrastructure, addressing socio-economic impacts like job losses will largely depend on public financing as per the expert.

Bridging the climate finance gap in emerging markets [Commentary]

Shantanu Srivastava, Soni Tiwari 23 Jul 2025
The aim of BHGY is to increase the income of marginal farmers. The scheme is linked to carbon finance so that farmers can take proper care of their orchards. Image by TRIF.

Carbon markets fund plantations and livelihoods

Vishal Kumar Jain 8 Jul 2025
A welder at work in a steel manufacturing unit. Representative image by Jay Hariani via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Nine projects in India produced ‘problematic’ carbon credits in 2024, says report

Simrin Sirur 2 Jul 2025
A thermal power station in Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh. Image by Jay.Jarosz via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Blended finance can help power India’s climate future [Commentary]

Suresh Seshadri 28 May 2025
Mango trees planted in Bagepalli, Karnataka. Based on five tree-planting projects across 21,767 farmer plots, tree cover increased by 48% in participating plots compared to a 26% increase in non-participating plots. Image by Shivani Agarwal.

Community buy-in, economic gains drive voluntary carbon market success

Sharmila Vaidyanathan 23 May 2025
A deserted and inundated metro station in Kochi during the 2018 Kerala floods. Image by Dil Shad Roshan via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Limited climate finance shifts focus on startups and local innovation

Navya P.K. 9 May 2025
Shipping containers at the Port of Tokyo. The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has approved a framework that will require ships to pay for carbon emissions starting in 2028. Image by Syced via Wikimedia Commons (CC-Zero).

Shipping industry sets sail towards carbon accountability

Kundan Pandey 21 Apr 2025
Workers pushing cotton bales at Kolkata railway station. Cotton bales are a key raw material for the textile industry. Image by Jorge Royan via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)"

Latest ESG reporting rules redefine key suppliers and customers of listed companies

Kundan Pandey 11 Apr 2025
Agriculture is one of six sectors the Government of India is working on for its climate finance taxonomy, says the 2025 budget document. Image by Digvijaysjanoti via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA-4.0)

Taxonomy for climate finance remains the missing link in India’s green transition

Kundan Pandey 14 Feb 2025
Parties at the closing plenary of COP29 in Baku, where rules for the future carbon market were finalised. Image courtesy of COP29 Azerbaijan Presidency via flickr

COP29 seals Article 6 deal for carbon trading, but environmental concerns persist

Kundan Pandey 4 Dec 2024