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Solar powered irrigation system on a farm in India.

[Commentary] The green implications of the union budget 2023

Nilanjan Ghosh 8 Feb 2023

[Commentary] Greenspeak in the budget needs to be backed by sustained action, independent of optics

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 3 Feb 2023

Fifty shades of green: The union budget’s environmental hits and misses

Kundan Pandey 2 Feb 2023
Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs, Nirmala Sitharaman, the Minister of State for Finance, Pankaj Chaudhary and the Minister of State for Finance, Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad on the eve of Budget 2023, in New Delhi on January 31, 2023. Photo by PIB

India’s push for climate finance in Economic Survey 2023 reflects its stance as G20 President

Kundan Pandey 1 Feb 2023

Editor’s review 2022: A warmer Arabian Sea, energy transition and a search for economic value

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 24 Dec 2022

A framework for sovereign green bonds a step in the right direction but has miles to go

Kundan Pandey 22 Nov 2022

India needs legal framework for closing mines and power plants

Kundan Pandey 25 Oct 2022

Big gaps in green financing could hamper India’s energy transition

Kundan Pandey 17 Oct 2022
Greenwashing protest

[Explainer] What is greenwashing?

Anusha Krishnan 10 Oct 2022
Barasingha stags in Kanha National Park. Photo by Kandukuru Nagarjun/ Wikimedia Commons.

[Commentary] India’s wildlife conservation journey has had great strides and many hurdles

Usha Rai 28 Sep 2022
Image shows a mural depicting coal mine workers

Coal will stay strong even as solar shines in India’s energy transition

Kundan Pandey 21 Sep 2022

[Explainer] What is biodiversity finance?

Anusha Krishnan 13 Sep 2022
The coastal communities in Satkhira are heavily dependent on agriculture.

As stronger storms hit, farmers in Bangladesh struggle to pay agricultural loans

Maksuda Aziz 9 Sep 2022

Parliamentary discussions related to climate change are largely missing in India, finds study

Sahana Ghosh 5 Aug 2022
Sharavathi river bordered by forests on both sides. Photo by Sarangib/Pixabay.

Karnataka sets green goals but denotifies two-thirds of its forest land in plot twist

Arathi Menon 28 Jul 2022
The Nicobar crab-eating macaque is one of the major fauna of the Great Nicobar Island. Photo by Prasun Goswami/Wikimedia Commons.

The container terminal that could sink the Great Nicobar Island

Mayank Aggarwal 20 Jul 2022

A road for a port cuts through the livelihoods of fisherwomen in Uttara Kannada

Supriya Vohra 14 Jul 2022

Karnataka’s port-development spree ignores coastal communities’ concerns

Supriya Vohra 13 Jul 2022

The canaries in the coal mine

Saiyam Khosla 11 May 2022

[Commentary] Thirty years after the Rio Summit the green report card is not fully in the red

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 6 May 2022