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Beyond Compensation: What Coastal Communities Lose to a Rising Sea
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3 Feb. 2026

Beyond Compensation: What Coastal Communities Lose to a Rising Sea

By Shaswata Kundu Chaudhuri

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
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15 Jan. 2026

Climate action in a fractured world: Trends for 2026

By M Rajshekhar and Archana Chaudhary

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..

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Can green trade barriers save the environment?
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Can green trade barriers save the environment?

By M Rajshekhar | 16 Dec. 2025

What Malaysia’s experience with Sustainable Palm Oil tells us about tropical deforestation — and CBAM….

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What COP30 reveals about the next phase of multilateralism
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What COP30 reveals about the next phase of multilateralism

By Shaswata Kundu Chaudhuri and Anushka Mohite | 4 Dec. 2025

Belém revealed a shifting balance of power and the challenges shaping multilateralism’s future COP30 did…

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The G20 Has Outrun COP on Climate Finance
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The G20 Has Outrun COP on Climate Finance

By Archana Chaudhary | 4 Dec. 2025

In a year crowded with climate summits, it wasn’t COP30 in Belém that reshaped the…

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As COP30 rolls out a tropical forest fund, how are India’s natural forests doing?
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As COP30 rolls out a tropical forest fund, how are India’s natural forests doing?

By M Rajshekhar | 14 Nov. 2025

Part 4 of CarbonCopy’s forest series finds that even as the Forest Survey of India…

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Can multilateralism still deliver at COP30?
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Can multilateralism still deliver at COP30?

By Anushka Mohite and Aarti Khosla | 31 Oct. 2025

From calls to reform climate finance to demands for equity and adaptation, experts say COP30…

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The $300 Billion Question Ahead of COP30
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The $300 Billion Question Ahead of COP30

By Labanya Prakash Jena | 31 Oct. 2025

The climate finance target set at COP29 highlights ambition, but bridging the gap demands political…

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Mapping the road to $1.3 trillion at COP30
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Mapping the road to $1.3 trillion at COP30

By Arjun Dutt | 31 Oct. 2025

Developing countries, excluding China, account for less than 15% of global climate finance flows. Enhancing…

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India at COP30: From Rule-Taker to Rule-Maker in the Climate-Trade Era
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India at COP30: From Rule-Taker to Rule-Maker in the Climate-Trade Era

By Archana Chaudhary | 31 Oct. 2025

As Brazil pushes for a global forum linking climate and trade, India stands at a…

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How India’s Pan Masala Boom is Stripping Its Forests
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How India’s Pan Masala Boom is Stripping Its Forests

By M Rajshekhar | 15 Oct. 2025

In the second part of CarbonCopy’s series on India’s native forests, we trace the illicit…

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India’s Forests Are Shrinking in Plain Sight
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India’s Forests Are Shrinking in Plain Sight

By M Rajshekhar | 15 Oct. 2025

CarbonCopy launches a new 4-part series on the state of India’s native forests, beginning in…

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Can Private Players Reinvent India’s Forecasting Future?
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Can Private Players Reinvent India’s Forecasting Future?

By Paridhi Choudhary | 30 Sept. 2025

Part two of CarbonCopy’s series on India’s weather warnings explores how startups and private players…

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Inside India’s Struggle to Build a Reliable Early Warning System
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Inside India’s Struggle to Build a Reliable Early Warning System

By Hridayesh Joshi | 16 Sept. 2025

Part one of CarbonCopy’s two-part series on India’s forecasting challenge explores how the IMD is…

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50% green energy was the easier part. The real challenge begins now
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50% green energy was the easier part. The real challenge begins now

By Shreya Jai | 29 Aug. 2025

India has hit 50% clean capacity ahead of schedule. But translating capacity into real supply,…

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How should India respond to Trump’s tariff shock?
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How should India respond to Trump’s tariff shock?

By M Rajshekhar | 14 Aug. 2025

The country has to set short-term pain against the long-term costs of the trade concessions…

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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…

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