Climate Change
Articles on climate finance, carbon markets, forest conservation, and the economics of climate adaptation — drawing from work with DFIs, entrepreneurs, and multilateral institutions.
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The Carbon Market Vocabulary That We Cannot Afford
Let me start with a summary of some headlines and marquee events from the past couple of years that you have likely encountered if…
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A $179 Million Carbon Market Lesson: KOKO Networks and Its Clean Cooking Play
KOKO Networks is a company I have cited many times as an example of what clean cooking success looks like. Founded in Kenya in…
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RESTORE 2025
The Economics of Restoration is complicated. And, the context specific nature of interventions make it even more difficult to have commercial capital flow in…
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Beyond Debt: How the USD 125 Billion Tropical Fund Redefines Climate Finance for Forest Conservation
Our forests are essential for maintaining Earth’s climate balance, as they absorb around 16 billion metric tonnes of CO₂ annually (gross removals) and store…
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Clean Cooking and Carbon Markets
The one thematic area that has remained consistent throughout my professional journey is access to clean cooking energy. What started as exploring BoP markets…
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Transforming Agriculture in the Global South – The South-South Agriculture Alliance
I strongly believe that innovative AgTechs can address some of the most pressing problems of the smallholder farmers and small producers. India has been…
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European Carbon Market – It Works!
Carbon markets, often used to describe the trade of carbon credits (mostly trade of voluntary carbon credits), is one of the least understood mechanisms…
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Climate Action – Slow and Inadequate
As I interact with people who are not immersed in the climate discourse, it is surprising that they believe that there is ‘too’ much…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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How India can benefit from voluntary carbon market
I highlight how voluntary carbon market can help Indian small holder farmers and communities in Economic Times.. Read it at the following link https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/small-biz/sme-sector/how-india-can-benefit-from-voluntary-carbon-markets/articleshow/92077194.cms
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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…
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Inadequate investments and slow growth of renewable energy will make Energy Transition painful.
If you have been reading about the success of solar energy and how renewable energy is going to replace coal, then the recent news…
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The 1.5 degree scenario is almost beyond our reach.
The IPCC Assessment Report 6– The physical sciences bases is full of bad news for humanity and a lot of science highlighting and…
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Going beyond the words and promises
You always have choices and will be known for what you chose. A company in Australia https://thankyou.co/categories realized that it had a silly product in its…
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Addressing Household Air Pollution and Celebrating Cooking : Dharma Chef
Household Air Pollution (HAP) is emerging as a major health risk and is responsible for more than 4.3 million premature deaths globally every year.…