Sustainability
Perspectives on sustainable development, restoration economics, clean energy access, and ESG — from policy frameworks to on-the-ground implementation.
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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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The Most Read Research Papers on ESG
Financial Times did an article on the most read research papers on ESG and here are the top five from the list. The list…
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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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Transforming Innovation and Entrepreneurial Ecosystem for Achieving our SDGs
The Covid-19 pandemic is a big setback to one of the most ambitious goals humanity has ever set for itself: the Sustainable Development Goals…
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Doubling Farmers’ Income – Making it a reality
Our Prime Minister’s call to double the farmers’s income1 by 2022 is an opportune call as the growth in farmers’ income has stagnated and…
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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.…
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Killer in the kitchen – Household Air Pollution Problem
Several news articles highlighted the deteriorating air quality in Delhi and its impact on health. Many of my friends and colleagues started contemplating options…
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Economic Environment Index
Last week we launched our Economic Environment Index (earlier it was called Economic Governance Index) and like any other index it got its fair…