Indian Resource Panel (InRP), 2015: From Resource Consumption to Resource Productivity.
Economic growth is usually measured in terms of output, income and investment.
Category Environment, Energy, Climate Change and Sustainable Development
Sovereign Green Bond (SGrB) Framework 2022
In 1693, the British Parliament passed the Million Act for financing the Nine Years' War. Specifically, they agreed to collect all beer and liquor taxes directly toward servicing the new debt. As such, this was one of the first instances of earmarking government borrowing. Making a specific funding source or spending objective to legitimize a borrower's commitment. Modern Public Finance has been retreating from earmarking since then through the consolidation of America's revolutionary debts by Alexander Hamilton to current treasury orthodoxies. According to these orthodoxies, a sovereign's ability to borrow is at its best when it is able to make use of a free flowing, fungible, single treasury account where funds are drawn from many sources to a central point.
Coal Gasification Financial Incentive Scheme (CGFIS): Promoting Clean Energy and Self-Reliance
India faces a critical trilemma in its energy transition: balancing rapid decarbonization targets with soaring industrial power demand, grid reliability constraints, and a heavy economic reliance on conventional fossil fuels. While expanding renewables and reducing emissions are priorities, coal remains essential for industrial and energy needs. The key issue is how to use domestic coal resources more efficiently and strategically.
From Climate Plan to Climate Action: Assessing Kerala’s State Action Plan on Climate Change (SAPCC 2.0) 2022
Kerala’s first State Action Plan on Climate Change came out in 2014, but by the time a decade had passed, it no longer felt like it matched the reality on the ground. The state had watched Cyclone Ockhi swirl in from the sea, endured the devastating floods of 2018 and 2019, grappled with Nipah outbreaks, and seen landslides become alarmingly routine in the Western Ghats. With monsoon patterns turning erratic and temperatures creeping up, the old plan simply could not keep up.
The Melting Himalayas: A Question of Climate Responsibility
On the morning of August 26, a wall of ice, rock and water tore down from Langtang-Lirung through the Bhotekoshi valley into Nepal and Tibet. Villages vanished. Bridges that had stood for generations were gone within minutes. Over 270 bodies have been recovered; more than a thousand people, many of them foreign trekkers on the Langtang route, remain missing.
National Electricity Policy in India (2026)
Electricity is a concurrent-list subject in India, and the framework for national-level power sector planning was laid down by the Electricity Act, 2003, which mandates the Central Government to formulate a National Electricity Policy (NEP) in consultation with the Central Electricity Authority (CEA) and the State Governments, and to review it from time to time (Ministry of Power). Under this mandate, the first National Electricity Policy (NEP 2005) was notified on 12 February 2005, at a time when the sector was defined by demand-supply deficits, limited household access to electricity, and weak generation, transmission and distribution infrastructure.
Heatwaves as Disasters: Bridging the Gap Between Recognition and Worker Protection
Every year, over 450 million workers, many of them migrants, engaged in agriculture, construction, street vending, sanitation, and transport are exposed to dangerous heat levels. Now that India has notified heat as a disaster, its success must be measured by whether fewer workers are forced to choose between their health and wages.