Climate Finance
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India’s Renewable Targets hinge on generating Debt Finance: Report
There is a widening credit divergence between renewable and thermal energy assets, according to a report by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA). It argued that the success of India’s target to reach 500 GW of renewable capacity by 2030 depends heavily on the country’s ability to mobilise sustainable debt finance.
Data is the New Collateral: Building a High-Fidelity Indian Carbon Market
India is laying the foundation stones of a national compliance carbon market. The market design features and regulatory systems are progressively under development, and industries are starting to prepare for the market. Much of the conversation so far has focused on targets, sectors, and trading rules. These are of course important — but the strongest foundation of an effective carbon market is something far more elementary.
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The EU-India FTA: A stepping stone for sustainable industrial transformation?
On 27 January 2026, after nearly two decades of negotiations, India and the European Union (EU) finally concluded a free trade agreement (FTA). It comes amid a rapidly shifting geopolitical landscape, in which both sides seek to diversify market access and de-risk their supply chains. Beyond the FTA, the two blocs signed a Joint India-European Comprehensive Strategic Agenda setting out a broad framework for cooperation, including in areas such as sustainability, innovation, and defence.
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
India’s Rapid Infra Growth Risks Outpacing its Ability to Insure These Projects: Report
On one hand, India is rapidly growing as an economy, which is driving infrastructure expansion. On the other hand, rising climate risks may be outpacing the country’s ability to insure these assets, according to a new report released by Climate Trends.
Indian Companies’ Risk Losing Global Capital Over Weak Climate Disclosures: Report
A new report found that India’s Business Responsibility and Sustainability Reporting (BRSR), that listed companies must follow, is not at par with the global International Sustainability Standards Board’s (ISSB) framework. The report titled “Corporate climate transition planning and disclosures in India” by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) warned Indian corporations face capital access risks if their disclosures remain high-level and unstandardised lacking transition-specific details.
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
India says it won’t rely on global climate or pollution rankings to shape policies
India won’t use international rankings to shape its climate or pollution policy, the environment ministry told Parliament, distancing itself from reports that frequently place the country among the world’s most climate-vulnerable and polluted. Asked about the latest Global Climate Risk Index
The G20 Has Outrun COP on Climate Finance
While negotiators in Brazil debated language, the G20 delivered structure. South Africa continued on the groundwork laid by India and Brazil in the past two years to ensure that the Global South — not the G7 — was driving that shift. This is not about the Global North vs South. It’s about leverage: who
India needs targeted public finance to scale green steel production
A new analysis found that India needs to deploy public capital strategically to bridge the finance gap for green steel projects, which are technically proven but still considered risky for private finance. This analysis by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) said it will help avoid carbon lock-in from its planned capacity expansion.
India Pushes for Critical Minerals Circularity and Collective Action on Climate at G20
Prime Minister Narendra Modi pushed for the creation of the Critical Minerals Circularity Initiative which will foster recycling, urban mining, second-life battery projects, and related innovations at the two-day G20 Leader’s Declaration event.
COP30 ends in chaos and compromise
What was meant to be a smooth closing act at COP30 in Belém briefly spiralled into chaos. Objections from countries like Colombia, Uruguay and Panama — who argued that their concerns were sidelined by the Brazilian Presidency — forced the suspension of the final plenary for nearly an hour.
India commits to revised NDC, shifts pressure back to rich nations to deliver on climate finance at COP30
The second week of COP30 started off with two much needed ingredients: stormy rainfall which sent temperatures dipping, and India’s announcement it will be announcing its revised Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC).
Tripling adaptation finance may be the only way to secure a win at COP30: Experts
While nearly 40,000 protesters took to the streets of Belém, beating up a furore against the threat of climate change, the mood at the COP30 venue remained rather nonchalant a week into the negotiations. Views from the consultations regarding the four issues, namely trade, finance, 1.5°C and emissions
India’s stance at COP30: No new commitments without real finance
COP30 is almost at the halfway mark and country stances are getting clearer as negotiations progress. For India, the position is crystal clear: nothing moves unless finance does, according to a source familiar with the delegation’s strategy.
COP30 Kicks Off With Hard Talks on Money, Adaptation and Global South Leadership
COP30 opened in Belém with a clear message from the Brazilian presidency: this is an implementation COP, with adaptation at its centre. More than 47,000 delegates from 195 countries arrived as President André Corrêa do Lago urged the world to look to the Global South for solutions, given the US’s absence and Europe’s diluted climate ambition. India set the tone for developing nations,
New report recasts Global South as climate finance investor, not recipient
“Tackling climate change and nature loss is one of the greatest economic opportunities of our era.” This line from the Fourth Report by the Independent High-Level Expert Group on Climate Finance (IHLEG), released on Wednesday at COP30, may have forever changed the language of climate finance from one of responsibility of richer nations towards poorer ones to one of investment,