Category Center for Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Development

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India-Germany Green Hydrogen Task Force (2024): Outcomes of Indo-German Consultations on Clean Energy

India and Germany have cooperated on energy for decades through platforms such as the Indo-German Energy Forum and the Indo-German Renewable Energy Partnership. This cooperation gained greater political importance in 2022 with the launch of the Green and Sustainable Development Partnership, supported by Germany's commitment of €10 billion in additional development assistance until 2030 (PMO, 2022; MEA/PIB, 2024).

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GOBARdhan(Galvanizing Organic Bio-Agro Resources Dhan Yojana): 2026

On 6 August 2026, the Union Cabinet approved GOBARdhan, the National Circular Bioenergy Scheme, with an outlay of ₹23,731 crore for FY 2026-27 to FY 2035-36 (PIB, 2026). Under the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (MoPNG) as Nodal agency. Its aim is a nearly ten-fold rise in domestic compressed biogas (CBG) production, large-scale private investment and a circular bioeconomy built on cattle dung, crop residue, press mud, municipal organic waste and other biomass.

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RETHINKING INDIA’S NATIONAL GUIDELINES ON HEATWAVE MANAGEMENT (2019) AMID GROWING HEATWAVE INCIDENTS IN INDIA

In recent years, heatwaves have become a major concern worldwide. The recent incidents of heatwaves have shown the severe effects of climate change and the urgent need to address environmental challenges, especially in India. Between 1992 and 2015, heatwaves took more than 20,000 lives in India, with 2,422 deaths in 2015 alone (NDMA, 2016).

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Safeguarding India’s Wetlands: Assessing National Plan for Conservation of Aquatic Eco-systems (2013).

Wetlands and lakes are important aquatic ecosystems that support biodiversity, regulate water flows, recharge groundwater, store carbon, and provide livelihoods to local communities. However, increasing urbanisation, untreated sewage, industrial effluents, encroachment, solid-waste dumping, excessive nutrient loading and changes in land use have placed considerable pressure on India's wetlands. According to the National Wetland Inventory and Assessment, India had approximately 2 lakh wetlands and water bodies larger than 2.25 hectares, covering around 10 million hectares (PIB, 2022).

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Compensatory Afforestation Fund Act (2016): Assessing the Governance of CAMPA Funds for Forest Restoration in India

The development path taken by India for many decades has been plagued by a structural contradiction; that the forest land required for mining, road-building, power transmission, and industry projects was also land that had been pledged to protection both domestically through forest laws and internationally through its Nationally Determined Contribution for sequestration of 2.5 to 3 billion tons of carbon dioxide equivalents by 2030.

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Disaster Risk Transfer Parametric Insurance Solution (DRTPIS) (2024): Assessing Nagaland’s Shift Towards Disaster Risk Financing (2024–2027)

Nagaland has implemented Disaster Risk Transfer Parametric Insurance Solution (DRTPS), commonly known as DRTPIS, which represents a shift from a mostly public expenditure approach on disaster towards the creation of disaster risk capacity beforehand. The distinction matters. Disaster risk financing is not about not having the rain or flooding or landsliding happen, it's about whether governments have already pre-arranged the liquidity when a hazard occurs that puts the fiscal system under pressure. The programme for Nagaland 2024-2027 is thus an intersection of disaster management, public finance, insurance and climate adaptation.

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