The clean energy transition is driving unprecedented demand for critical minerals like lithium, nickel, cobalt, and rare earths. These materials power electric vehicles, wind turbines, solar panels,...
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The Baku to Belém Roadmap to 1.3T: A Road That Must Be Travelled
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...
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...