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CoP conflict: Fossil fuel lobby groups should have no say in UN climate negotiations

New Delhi, Oct. 27 -- At the United Nations climate talks, those invested in prolonging the fossil fuel era still help design its end. CoP-28 in Dubai had more than 2,400 accredited delegates linked t... Read More


India's growth depends on water- and climate change is making it scarcer for everyone

New Delhi, Oct. 13 -- Businesses in India have typically treated water as a steady input-not perfect, but reliable enough. Climate change is unravelling that assumption. Variable rainfall, falling gro... Read More


India's infrastructure boom mustn't lock in carbon emissions that we'll live to regret later

New Delhi, Sept. 28 -- India's ongoing build-up is at a scale without precedent. The National Infrastructure Pipeline projected an outlay of more than Rs.100 trillion in the five years till the end of... Read More


Brace for risk repricing as insurers face rising climate claims

New Delhi, Sept. 10 -- The climate emergency is no longer a distant threat on actuarial spreadsheets. It is reshaping how insurers calculate risk, fix prices and design products. Insurance, once buil... Read More


Climate resilience spending can set off a new wave of business ventures

New Delhi, Aug. 21 -- Climate adaptation is often viewed as a defensive cost, necessary to protect societies from the effects of a warming world. That framing is incomplete. As governments increasingl... Read More


Atomic hype: Nuclear energy is a story of more frisson than fission

New Delhi, Aug. 4 -- As India's energy transition gathers pace, nuclear power is being positioned by its champions as the anchor of a decarbonized power grid capable of supporting economic growth. The... Read More