wind energy

Wind energy can rescue India’s renewable transition

India has vast wind energy potential, but PPA delays, weak transmission and poor site deployment continue to slow capacity addition. #windenergy Read more »
Energy poverty

Energy poverty challenge in the net-zero transition

Energy poverty is shaped by access, tariffs, DISCOM finances, and uneven state capacity. #DISCOM Read more »
Climate migration in India

Climate migration is already reshaping India’s cities

Climate migration is rising in India, but policy still treats it as economic movement. Read more »
Mahakumbh waste management

Mahakumbh 2025 holds lessons in solving India’s waste crisis.

The government should take a leaf out of the Mahakumbh playbook, ensuring adequate budget allocation for the establishment of waste treatment in all metros. Read more »
floods and heatwaves

Heatwaves and floods expose India’s urban policy gaps

Climate shocks in the form of heatwaves and floods are now imposing real economic and human costs on Indian cities. Read more »
renewable energy output

India’s renewable energy push hides distributional costs

India’s renewable energy surge masks land, labour and equity costs that policy has yet to address. Read more »
Climate change

Climate change is deepening poverty in India

A new study shows climate change is not just an environmental threat; it is also making poverty deeper, more localised, and harder to escape. #climatechange #poverty Read more »
India updated NDC

India’s updated NDC puts industry on a green deadline

India’s updated NDC sharpens climate targets and puts power, industry and finance at the centre of the transition. Read more »
India's new small hydro power scheme

Small hydro power push needs state capacity, not just funds

The new small hydro power scheme is a useful start, but its success will depend on whether states can reduce approval bottlenecks, share risks, and support projects. Read more »
arctic ice melt

How climate change is reshaping Arctic geopolitics

Melting ice is opening new shipping routes and resource frontiers, turning the Arctic and Greenland into focal points of great-power competition. Read more »