Climate Change
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Biodiversity Financing- Going Beyond Public Finance
Biodiversity conservation and protection needs urgent financing push. With yearly financing gap of more than USD 500 billion, we need to look beyond the public financing and leverage biodiversity offsets, green bonds and other innovative instruments. Continue reading
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Climate Adaptation Technologies – How India can protect its communities against climate change
Women in India will be at a higher risk given 80% of rural women are employed in the agriculture sector, have lower asset ownership and credit access than men, have child caring responsibilities which prevent migration and are exposed to heightened violence especially during conflict. Read our take on Climate adaptation technologies- how India can… Continue reading
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The State of the Carbon Dioxide Removal – Nowhere close to what is needed.
The first edition of the state of the Carbon Dioxide Removal report is out. And, it confirms what many of us have been reiterating for a long time. The current status of Carbon Dioxide Removal is just a fraction of what is needed to achieve our goal of keeping global warming below 2 degrees. The… Continue reading
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The ABC of ESG – The Evolution, Drivers and the Next Phase
The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits , a seminal piece by Milton Friedman was published on September 13, 1970. As the title suggests, it argued vehemently for businesses to focus on maximising profits for their shareholders. The article in today’s time would have been viral due it Mr. Friedman’s several twit-worthy… Continue reading
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Net Zero Goals and Rush For Carbon Credits
Recently, a number of friends reached out to me to know more about ‘Carbon Credits’; knowing well that their interest in climate change and carbon credits was very limited, it was slightly surprising for me to have their keen queries on carbon credits. It did not take much time to figure out that their… Continue reading