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...
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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...
Towards 100 GW: The Future of Nuclear Energy in India
As India’s population and economy surge, so do its electricity needs. With demand expected to triple to 708 GW by 2047, and given its goal of achieving net-zero emissions by 2070, India stands at a...
Fragility, Climate Change, and the Crisis of Climate Finance in Africa
Africa is home to over 1.5 billion people across 54 countries (IMF, 2025) and has a GDP of roughly USD 2.8 trillion (IMF, 2025). Nonetheless, it remains disproportionately affected by poverty. In...
Evolution of India’s Renewable Energy Trading
India’s electricity demand is surging, driven by rapid economic growth, population expansion, urbanisation, and nationwide electrification efforts. To meet the growing demand and reach its target of...
From Fear to Hope: Rethinking How We Talk About Climate Change
For most of us, climate change has always been