Category: 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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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 and a polarising topic among climate activists. But Carbon markets are much more than just trade…
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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 focus on climate action. They believe that with this kind of ‘intense focus’ on climate action,…
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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.
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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…
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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…