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From extraction to regeneration: How India’s coal mines are being reimagined
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From extraction to regeneration: How India’s coal mines are being reimagined

By Shaswata Kundu Chaudhuri | 31 Jul. 2025

Pisciculture, afforestation, pumped storage, eco-tourism have emerged as the more popular forms of re-using abandoned…

India’s just transition needs a robust financing ecosystem: Report
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India’s just transition needs a robust financing ecosystem: Report

By Editorial Team | 21 Jul. 2025

The report said that SEBI and RBI can integrate just transition metrics into disclosures, lending…

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Greener Textiles, Shrinking Margins: What the Sustainability Push Means for India’s Artisans
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Greener Textiles, Shrinking Margins: What the Sustainability Push Means for India’s Artisans

By Paridhi Choudhary| 15 Jul. 2025

With CETP delays, water pollution crackdowns, and limited state support, the country’s oldest textile traditions…

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Targeted co-financing can solve the challenge of just transition in emerging economies: Report
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Targeted co-financing can solve the challenge of just transition in emerging economies: Report

By Editorial Team| 18 Jun. 2025

Blended finance models can also help by attracting private infrastructure for building infrastructure and funding…

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India’s coal heartland is powering down, with no safety net 
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India’s coal heartland is powering down, with no safety net 

By Shaswata Kundu Chaudhuri| 30 May. 2025

The energy shift is redrawing India’s economic map, but for coal belt workers in states…

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9 years after launch, India’s solar skill training scheme yet to find its place in the sun
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9 years after launch, India’s solar skill training scheme yet to find its place in the sun

By Vandita Sariya| 15 May. 2024

As the issue of unemployment looms large this election season while the country aspires to…

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Shut down, shut out: Closure of Badarpur thermal power plant a lesson in “unjust” transition
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Shut down, shut out: Closure of Badarpur thermal power plant a lesson in “unjust” transition

By Kalyan Chatterjee| 23 Jan. 2024

Although pressure on the NTPC had been rising to shut down the plant that had…

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Global energy transition could lead to loss of one million coal jobs: Report
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Global energy transition could lead to loss of one million coal jobs: Report

By Anushka Mohite| 11 Oct. 2023

By 2050, nearly 1 million coal mine jobs will no longer exist at operating mines…

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India and the case for a national energy transition plan
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India and the case for a national energy transition plan

By Rishika Pardikar| 31 Jan. 2023

Despite wide recognition of eventual drawdown of coal and thermal power, there is little to…

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Why quality matters as much as quantity with energy transition finance
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Why quality matters as much as quantity with energy transition finance

By Lou Del Bello| 16 Nov. 2022

Energy transition finance needs to be in line with needs and circumstances, and provided in…

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US’ ‘Energy Transition Accelerator’ launched at COP27 raises more questions than it answers
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US’ ‘Energy Transition Accelerator’ launched at COP27 raises more questions than it answers

By Bhasker Tripathi| 10 Nov. 2022

The programme will have to ensure that a voluntary carbon market does not become a…

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How India can help power Fiji’s clean energy transition
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How India can help power Fiji’s clean energy transition

By Labanya Prakash Jena and Prasad Ashok Thakur| 5 Sept. 2022

The small island nation’s abundant year-round solar energy, a limitless supply of seawater and strong…

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Report maps way for a just energy transition in Odisha’s coal-heavy Angul
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Report maps way for a just energy transition in Odisha’s coal-heavy Angul

By Editorial Team| 3 Sept. 2022

There’s a growing need to to strategically plan for a just energy transition and simultaneously…

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Unwiring the ‘System’ of India’s Clean Energy Transition
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Unwiring the ‘System’ of India’s Clean Energy Transition

By Sarthak Shukla and Kumer Singh| 31 May. 2022

The clarion calls for unhindered and immediate climate action by the successive reports of Inter-…

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How gender will determine the real success of India’s low-carbon transition
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How gender will determine the real success of India’s low-carbon transition

By Swati Joshi| 20 Sept. 2021

Investing in women’s health, education, and social security is crucial to achieve gender equality in…

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Pitfalls and opportunities: How to find justice in India’s low-carbon energy transition
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Pitfalls and opportunities: How to find justice in India’s low-carbon energy transition

By Swati Joshi| 14 Sept. 2021

The green transition must include both not just jobs but also social security for informal…

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Profound inequality bears heavy on India’s energy transition
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Profound inequality bears heavy on India’s energy transition

By Swati Joshi| 10 Sept. 2021

Unjust power structures typical of India’s coal belt will make the prospects of a just…

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