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31 July 2025

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

By Shaswata Kundu Chaudhuri

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

21 July 2025

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

By Editorial Team

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

15 July 2025By Paridhi Choudhary

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

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

18 June 2025By Editorial Team

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

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

30 May 2025By Shaswata Kundu Chaudhuri

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

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

15 May 2024By Vandita Sariya

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

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

23 January 2024By Kalyan Chatterjee

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

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

11 October 2023By Anushka Mohite

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

India and the case for a national energy transition plan

31 January 2023By Rishika Pardikar

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

Why quality matters as much as quantity with energy transition finance

16 November 2022By Lou Del Bello

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

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

10 November 2022By Bhasker Tripathi

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

How India can help power Fiji’s clean energy transition

5 September 2022By Labanya Prakash Jena

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

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

3 September 2022By Editorial Team

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

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

31 May 2022By Sarthak Shukla

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

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

20 September 2021By Swati Joshi

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

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

14 September 2021By Swati Joshi

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

Profound inequality bears heavy on India’s energy transition

10 September 2021By Swati Joshi

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