The Baku to Belém Roadmap to 1.3T (2025), launched at the meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement during its sixth session (CMA 6) of COP30,[1] envisages developing an actionable framework for...
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Future of Battery Storage in India
India's renewable energy (RE) growth has been impressive: India has added nearly 34.4GW of new solar (68.9% y-o-y growth) and wind (88.8% y-o-y growth) capacity during the first nine months of 2025...
Is Your Brand Greenwashing or Storywashing? A Communicator’s Guide to Credibility in Climate Messaging
In today’s climate-conscious world, it’s no longer enough for brands to just “look green”; they’re also expected to be and sound purpose-driven. Climate storytelling is everywhere: sustainability...
Unlocking Golden Finance for Green Transition in India
Gold is gaining renewed trust and investor confidence as an asset class, amid weakening global governance and turbulence in rules-based financial systems (Sethi, 2025). The ongoing political and...
Climate-Proofing India’s Banks: The Rise of Stress Testing for a New Era
When the Chennai floods struck in December 2015, the impact went far beyond waterlogged streets. Businesses shut, ATMs stopped working, and nearly ₹1 lakh crore in loans, largely to small businesses...
A Place-Based Approach to the Climate Transition
As discussions on climate change shift toward climate finance, the imperative to ensure a sustainable climate transition is increasingly evident. India, being ranked as the sixth-most-affected...
Scaling Finance for Nature-based Solutions: Key Challenges
Global efforts aim to advance Nature-based Solutions (NbS) and secure funding for widespread adoption. In the previous article of this series, we discussed financing requirements, sources of...
Financing Nature-based Solutions: A Primer on Financing Requirements, Flows, and Instruments
Nature-based solutions (NbS) aim to provide cross-sectoral solutions to address the challenges presented by biodiversity loss and nature conservation while serving multiple objectives of building...
Nature-based Solutions: A Primer on Their Foundations, Evolution, and Relevance Today
In recent years, Nature-based solutions (NbS) have gained prominence as a strategic tool to address biodiversity loss, conserve natural capital,[1] and build societal and ecosystem resilience to...