M Rajshekhar
Climate action in a fractured world: Trends for 2026
On January 13, US President Donald Trump slapped a 25% tariff on any country doing business with Iran. The news was received with consternation in Iran and beyond. Oil is Teheran’s biggest export — with China..
Can green trade barriers save the environment?
What Malaysia’s experience with Sustainable Palm Oil tells us about tropical deforestation — and CBAM….
What India risks as its natural forests disappear
The final part of CarbonCopy’s 5-part Forest series. From water to wildlife, the costs of…
As COP30 rolls out a tropical forest fund, how are India’s natural forests doing?
Part 4 of CarbonCopy’s forest series finds that even as the Forest Survey of India…
How much Khair is India left with?
As kattha manufacturing winds down in Uttar Pradesh and picks up in Kashmir, Uttarakhand, Himachal…
How India’s Pan Masala Boom is Stripping Its Forests
In the second part of CarbonCopy’s series on India’s native forests, we trace the illicit…
India’s Forests Are Shrinking in Plain Sight
CarbonCopy launches a new 4-part series on the state of India’s native forests, beginning in…
How should India respond to Trump’s tariff shock?
The country has to set short-term pain against the long-term costs of the trade concessions…
Trump’s trade war revives a vital old question: Can the Global South go its own way?
Even as US and China begin talks, the Global South should not play ball and…
How Trump’s tariff shock could reroute decarbonisation
The new tariffs are likely to trigger a global reset in supply chains and climate…
How to reboot India’s renewable energy sector
The SEC’s chargesheet on Adani and Azure indicate that renewable energy regulation is in trouble….
Caught in the power maze: India’s discoms battle solar’s growing costs
Part 3 of CarbonCopy’s three-part series on India’s solar sector finds that discoms are struggling…
Chasing the sun: Unlikely firms are betting big on solar
Part 2 of CarbonCopy’s three-part series on the solar industry explores why despite lacking scale,…
Price surge or power surge? India’s solar conundrum
In the first instalment of a three-part series on India’s solar sector, CarbonCopy uncovers a…
Deep-sea mining: Why it is time to sink this ship
A recent scientific discovery of polymetallic nodules producing “dark oxygen” at the bottom of the…
India’s energy sector: Ten years of progress, but in fits and starts
As the current administration ends its second term, CarbonCopy presents a report card on India’s…
India’s new hydel push can’t turn blind eye to Teesta III failures
In part 2 of this series, CarbonCopy explores how India is pushing for dams with…
Teesta disaster: How not to build a dam
This is a two-part series on Sikkim’s failed dam ambitions and its implications on India’s…
Geopolitical pressures fuelling India’s gas import deals?
As the demand for fossil fuels drops in the West, oil-rich countries such as the…
Seed money: Farming elite more keen on India’s palm oil push than smallholders
Part Two of CarbonCopy’s series on palm oil focuses on how big hitters in states…
How India’s palm oil push is changing land relations in the North East
In the first of a two-part series on India’s plans to increase palm oil production,…
A JV in tow, will India’s new nuclear push work?
NPCIL is forming joint ventures, Niti Aayog is keen on SMRs. Unresolved questions swirl around both….
How India is shifting its nuclear power plans into high gear
The country needs to decarbonise. Its renewables face charges of intermittency. Is nuclear the answer?…
Can India create an atmanirbhar EV manufacturing chain?
In the concluding part of this series on critical minerals, CarbonCopy explores how localisation is…
Critical mineral imports: The devil is in the details
In part 2 of the series on critical minerals in India, CarbonCopy explores how India’s…
Digging into India’s critical minerals dash
In the first installment of a three-part series that explores India’s efforts to bolster its…
Post-Hindenburg, what happens to Adani’s energy plans?
And how will the contagion affect India’s ‘green growth’ ambitions? In early February, as the…
Five questions India needs to answer about its PLI scheme
For a fuller understanding of how India’s manufacturing push will reshape India, the country need…
What India’s solar and battery PLIs tell us about how the scheme is working
In the second part of the series on production-linked initiatives (PLIs) in the renewables sector,…
How far will India’s landmark manufacturing scheme propel it in the global energy race?
India has stepped into the global race to dominate the “industries of the future”. Its…
Measuring the viability of India’s hydel power plans
In the third part of this series, CarbonCopy looks at why states may ultimately bear…
Hydel faces questions about viability in India’s three-way energy storage race
India’s previous hydel push fell to political rent-extraction and speculation. The current one faces competition…
Does hydel have a role in India’s decarbonisation plans?
The NDA govt is looking at hydel power to balance the grid as it moves…
Why India should brace for decarbonisation impact
The fourth—and concluding—report in this series looks at the costs of accelerated decarbonisation in a…
“Government support needed for large-scale carbon-capture projects in India”
Even as the global price of electrolysers looks set to fall, carbon-capture technologies continue to…
What Tata Steel’s attempts to decarbonise tell us
The first report in this series had looked at India’s capacity to produce for the emerging energy transition. This…
India needs to step on the gas to win the global green hydrogen race
Intentions aside, there are a series of issues that the country must urgently resolve in…
Sensing an opportunity: Why India should accept, not resist, decarbonisation
With the oil economy on its way out, and a clear low-carbon pathway for the…
The sum of all of India’s net zero fears
Adding decarbonisation to the to-do list of a country already battling high emission levels, modest…
India’s solar sector bearing the costs of a poorly designed market
The final installment of CarbonCopy’s series on India’s solar sector explores how obsolete market designs…
The fall and rise of solar costs in India
This installment of CarbonCopy’s series on India’s solar sector explores the two big reasons why…
Rooftop solar and DISCOMs: A case of putting the cart before the horse?
This installment of CarbonCopy’s series on India’s solar sector explores all the reasons why solar…
How dissonance is leading to chaos and tumult in India’s solar sector
Even with falling tariffs, growth in the sector is slowing, and a rising number of…
India’s thermal power generators are gearing up for a ‘rebundled’ future
As large firms in the power sector pick up distribution and transmission assets, the life…
Peering into Coal India’s ambitious pivot
“We do not want to be a coal mining company any longer. We do not…
Strange times ahead for India’s coal sector
As CarbonCopy reported in the middle of last year, India’s energy policy is distinctly muddled. By 2030,…
America’s shale story has a new chapter in the offing
Joe Biden’s election to the highest office in the US is likely to hold implications…
The four hidden risks lurking in India’s gas expansion plans
India’s plans to remake itself into a gas-based economy are floundering. As the previous story…
Why India’s gas boom is running out of steam
Gas had fifteen years to establish itself in India. Seven of those years are gone…
Can Gas Account for 15% of India’s Energy Mix?
The short answer is ‘No’. In March this year, union minister Dharmendra Pradhan published an…