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Clinic to Climate: India’s Missing Protocol For Tracking and Treating Heat Illness
Protocols should shift from reacting to heat emergencies to anticipating risk and enabling early action
How Can India Finance its Heat Action Plans?
The country has drafted hundreds of Heat Action Plans to combat the crisis, but the challenge of finding money to make them work remains
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The Great LPG Divide: India’s LPG Cylinder Market Splits in Two
As the Iran war disrupts global supplies, registered consumers remain protected while migrant workers and poorer households pay some of the highest rates anywhere in the world for LPG
Beyond Capacity: Unlocking the Full Potential of India’s Clean Energy
As geopolitical tensions rise in West Asia, India finds itself in a paradox — record renewable capacity on one hand, and wasted solar power on the other. To get a clearer picture of India’s energy vulnerability, it is important to not just look at how much oil and gas it imports, but how efficiently it uses the clean power it already produces. Even as India raises its climate ambition under its newly released Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) 3.0 — with higher clean energy and emissions reduction targets — the challenge is no longer just building capacity, but using it effectively.
West Asia Shock Ripples Through India’s Kitchens, Factories and Supply Chains
The mood is tense in Malur Industrial Area. About 45 kilometres to the east of Bengaluru, it has a melange of small and medium industrial units. Walking through it, you will see firms making diverse products — laboratory glassware, farm equipment, steel products and plastics. The road leading into the industrial area adds yet more diversity — car batteries, hydraulic pumps, steel scrap.
Even as India worries about shortages of cooking gas, industries are starting to worry about something else — the raw materials that come from petroleum. Two weeks have passed since the US and Israel attacked Iran. In the days since, between Iran blocking the Strait of Hormuz and exporters like Qatar Petroleum shutting down oil and gas exports, an unprecedented energy shock has begun to ripple across the world. India, which gets 80-85% of its LPG; about 55% of its crude; and 60% of its LNG from the Persian Gulf, is amongst the worst affected.
West Asia escalation can put India’s energy security to the test
As the attack by America and Israel on Iran enters its third day, the world is torn between incomprehension and comprehension. What happens next in the war theatre is anyone’s guess. How long will the battle last? Can Iran inflict enough damage for the US and Israel to withdraw?
India’s Climate Disasters Are Triggering a Silent Mental Health Crisis
Pradeep Panwar’s, 32, life collapsed in a matter of seconds on August 5, last year, when a massive flood and landslide tore through Dharali village in the Uttarkashi district of Uttarakhand, killing more than 50 lives. His shop and taxi—his family’s only sources of income—were destroyed.
Beyond Compensation: What Coastal Communities Lose to a Rising Sea
Part 1 of CarbonCopy’s series on non-economic loss and damage examines how climate impacts along Odisha’s coast are eroding identity, culture and belonging beyond what compensation frameworks recognise
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 accounting for 80% of Iran’s petroleum exports. If the middle kingdom fell in line with