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Workers at a bakery get newly baked pav ready for sale. Image by Megha Acharya/Mongabay-India.

Clean fuel mandate pushes Mumbai’s traditional pav bakeries away from coal

Esha Lohia 5 Dec 2025

India announces a unified climate finance mechanism to implement its climate action strategy

Manish Chandra Mishra 25 Nov 2025
Indian delegates at the closing plenary on November 22. Image © UN Climate Change – Kiara Worth via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).

Soaring expectations met with sinking outcomes at climate summit

Soumya Sarkar 24 Nov 2025
Delegates speak informally before the start of closing plenary Image © UN Climate Change - Kiara Worth via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).

Obstruction tactics delay climate action, says global assessment

Aditi Tandon 24 Nov 2025
Speakers at the high-level event on building cooperation for scaling climate finance. Image © UN Climate Change - Diego Herculano via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).

India, China step into leadership vacuum at climate meet as the West retreats

Soumya Sarkar 21 Nov 2025
An iron ore mining operation. India's environment ministry granted post-facto clearance to over 100 projects and issued terms of reference for more, including coal and iron mines, factories, and other large projects. Representative image by CDE Global via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

Supreme Court rolls back order banning post-facto environmental clearance

Simrin Sirur 20 Nov 2025

India falls in climate performance rankings

Manish Chandra Mishra 20 Nov 2025
A farmer operates a tractor in a wheat field in Punjab. Farmers at work in Maharashtra. The Global Methane Status Report 2025 found that agriculture accounts for 42% of global anthropogenic methane emissions, and that India is yet to plan sufficient action steps to reduce emissions in this category. Image by CIAT via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Status report shows methane emissions rising despite policy progress

Manish Chandra Mishra 20 Nov 2025
A betel shop continues to operate, while the shop next door has shut, due to dwindling business following the shutting down of a thermal power plant in Talcher, Odisha. Image by Roli Srivastava.

The invisible fallout of thermal power plant closures on local economies

Roli Srivastava 31 Oct 2025

India’s major coal unions weigh in on the path to a just transition

Simrin Sirur 15 Nov 2024

Just transition policy should focus on social infrastructure, apart from alternative jobs: report

Simrin Sirur 23 Jul 2024

[Video] Maize takes centre stage as Bihar ramps up biofuel production

Pranav Kumar 12 Apr 2024
Delegates during the Closing Plenary at the UN Climate Change Conference COP28 at Expo City Dubai on December 13, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Photo by COP28/Christophe Viseux/Flickr.

COP28 deal promises to ‘transition away’ from fossil fuels but finance and equity concerns remain

Simrin Sirur 14 Dec 2023

Big oil leaning on carbon capture may fracture consensus on ditching fossil fuels

Soumya Sarkar 11 Dec 2023

LPG subsidy can increase uptake, but interventions needed to counter myths and improve access

Simrin Sirur 6 Sep 2023

Indian banks have no plans to step away from coal investments yet, new assessment finds

Simrin Sirur 25 Aug 2023
Image shows men carrying LPG cylinders down to a boat in West Bengal, India

[Commentary] Innovations needed in fossil fuel subsidy to promote clean cooking in India

Abhishek Kar 15 Aug 2022
Image shows a pre-dawn view of Trishul peak in the Himalayas

[Book Review] In The Living Mountain, Ghosh holds up a time-traveller’s mirror to the climate crisis

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 6 Jul 2022
A wind farm in Tamil Nadu. Open access for green energy could help minimise fossil fuel usage and promote country-wide trade of clean energy.

Discoms and states pivotal to making renewable energy via open access a success

Manish Kumar 4 Jul 2022

The canaries in the coal mine

Saiyam Khosla 11 May 2022