Category Environment, Energy, Climate Change and Sustainable Development

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Green India Mission (2014): Building a Greener Future for India

Forests provide important ecosystem services such as carbon sequestration, biodiversity conservation, soil and water conservation, climate regulation, and the provision of fuel, fodder, timber and non-timber forest products. They are also an important source of livelihood for communities living in and around forest areas. Recognising their ecological importance, the National Forest Policy, 1988 set the objective of maintaining forest and tree cover over at least one-third of the country's geographical area, while emphasising the need to protect ecological stability and prevent soil erosion and land degradation.

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Climate Resilient Brahmaputra Project (2026): Assessing Flood Resilience and Indigenous Community Safeguards (2025–2030)

The issue of flooding is a persistent structural limitation of land, livelihood and public infrastructure in Assam. According to the Government of Assam, approximately 31.05 lakh hectares of the state's total geographical area is prone to flood and an average of 9.31 lakh hectares is affected by flood in Assam every year (6.84 per cent of total geographical area).

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Power System and Development Fund (PSDF), 2014

The power sector was not the only challenge in the early 2010s for India. New inter-State electricity flows were accompanied by fast growth, which revealed transmission deficiencies, insufficient voltage management, protection vulnerabilities and investments that were not always easily accommodated by traditional project financing methods.

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FOCUS 2.0 (2025): Assessing Climate Resilience and Indigenous Livelihoods in Mizoram (2025–2031)

The second generation rural transformation programme, FOCUS 2.0, focuses on a challenging policy question in Mizoram: how to increase the productivity and profitability of upland agriculture without degrading the ecological processes and community institutions upon which rural livelihoods rely? The programme received approval from the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) in November 2025 and will benefit all 11 districts of Mizoram, 700 villages and 75,000 households (about 150,000 people).

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District Mineral Foundations (DMFs) in India, 2026: Can Mining Revenues Deliver Development to Mining-Affected Communities?

Mining imposes lasting social and environmental costs on the districts where it occurs including land acquisition, displacement, pollution, and depletion of forest and water resources yet for decades the revenue generated from mining flowed almost entirely to state and central exchequers, with no earmarked mechanism to compensate the communities bearing these costs.

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Green Public Procurement in India 2025: Can Government Purchasing Drive a Low-Carbon Industrial Transition?

Government purchasing is one of the biggest single levers any economy has on industrial demand, with over 1.6 lakh government buyer entities using the Government e-Marketplace (GeM), (Press Information Bureau, 2025) for procurement where cumulative Gross Merchandise Value reached ₹5 lakh crore before the end of FY 2024-25 (Press Information Bureau, 2025).

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Kerala’s Electric Vehicle Policy, 2019: Assessing the State’s Green Mobility Transition

Kerala was among the earliest Indian states to formally recognise electric mobility as a policy priority. The Kerala Electric Vehicle Policy was notified by the Transport Department on 10 March 2019, with a validity period of five years from the date of notification. The policy was framed around the vision of embracing electric mobility as a tool to promote shared and clean transportation, ensure environmental sustainability, improve energy efficiency, and build a domestic ecosystem for manufacturing EV components within the state.

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