Topic: Climate
December 02, 2024
IVCA GreenReturns Summit, 2024 – New Delhi
The inaugural two-day Indian Venture and Alternate Capital Association (IVCA) GreenReturns Summit 2024 in Delhi on Dec 2-3 features a stellar set of speakers and panels The event covers a wide...
October 18, 2024
Green transition: Reducing the cost of capital
Financial Express The capital stack of green transition industries will continue to evolve as industries mature Reducing the cost of capital requires smart financial engineering Green...
September 18, 2024
Mumbai’s Road to Resilience: Managing in a Climate Crisis
IMC Journal (opens a pdf) I am anxious I am anxious about traffic jams Every year in the winters, I drive between 2,000 and 4,000 kilometers across India The most stressful thing about a drive...
August 16, 2024
Green trifecta: Financing higher retail capex in a low greenium world
Financial Express Green transition (a) requires an increased share of investments by households, (b) creating an economy with higher capex and lower opex, and (c) without material green...
July 19, 2024
Creating India’s Climate Stack
Financial Express Data and models of climate change are required by society, business, and policymakers: building a tool which houses a common understanding can empower all stakeholders Digital...
July 03, 2024
Climate Policy Lab Academy 2024
A country makes big commitments at a mega climate event For its people and industries, it then announces many policies to meet its commitments How would you know if the policies (and their eventual...
November 17, 2023
Climate investments require ‘equity’
The Financial Express Social and financial sectors approach equity in climate investments very differently: a shared understanding can unlock human and financial capital Sometimes the...
September 28, 2023
G20: Making Climate Finance of Multilateral Development Banks Impactful
The Financial Express Innovatively augmenting the resources of MDBs, alignment with national goals, and effective delivery of climate technology, finance, and resilience can create...
June 17, 2023
Mobilising Climate Finance Through Long-Term Currency Swaps
Akhilesh Tilotia and Jayant Sinha The Economic Times The global South requires trillions of dollars of private sector investments every year in climate mitigation, adaptation, and...
June 08, 2023
Green finance: Calibrating capital and regulations for different stages
Financial Express Climate adaptation, mitigation, and resilience require trillions of dollars of financing Green finance has hence caught the attention of companies, investors, regulators,...
March 10, 2023
Green Finance: Mind your Ps and Qs
The Financial Express “Green finance” is not naturally low-cost finance; with their fiduciary duty, investors expect appropriate returns Focus should be on enhancing sources of finance...
October 07, 2022
Reducing greenhouse gasses: Pathways to achieving the objective
Adding a monetary value to carbon can incentivize or disincentivize some sectors; setting performance standards can create a race for innovation Financial Express “Bending the...
August 12, 2022
Building a network of green financing institutions in India
Financial Express The idea that India needs to invest trillions of dollars in meeting its Net Zero by 2070 commitment is, by now, well known Estimates run to over ten trillion dollars in the...
June 23, 2022
Net Finance – A companion to Net Zero
The Financial Express India made five commitments at COP26: (1) it will increase its non-fossil energy capacity to 500 GW by 2030; (2) it will meet 50 percent of its energy requirements...
April 17, 2022
Fiscal considerations of the Green transition
State of public finances has a direct impact on Green policies that Government can pursue – the range of policy options gets shaped by the need for more revenues or the ability to spend...
January 12, 2022
Sequestering the fiscal bounty
The notional ‘saving’ of ~Rs 1 lakh crore on the fiscal deficit front offers India an opportunity to create a fund to deal with climate change Financial Express Fiscal year...
November 03, 2021
Shaping our Green Future: Pathways and Policies for a Net Zero Transition
Observer Research Foundation (ORF) put together a monograph on Shaping Our Green Future: Pathways and Policies for a Net-Zero Transformation 1 They pulled together a fantastic set of...
August 13, 2021
Financing the Green Transition
Financial Express New sources of capital and new instruments are required to power the green transition Green Transition is a reality: it is here and now The recent spate of...
July 12, 2021
Urban development and green finance: Blending two mega trends
Financial Express Writing on LinkedIn recently, Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi said, “The 15th Finance Commission and several academics have emphasised the crucial importance...
June 17, 2021
Attracting Large Pools of Capital for a Green Transition
Financial Express India is a signatory and strong advocate for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and the only large country on track for emissions reduction...
April 22, 2021
Capital and Innovation: This Time is Different
Roles of technological innovation and capital are changing: the 2020s will be very different landscape compared to the 2010s Financial Express The decade of 2010s has been bookended...
April 01, 2021
Net-zero will require a serious effort – now!
Book review of Bill Gates': "How to Avoid a Climate Disaster" Financial Express This book should be a required reading for anyone interested in:• the “big picture” of greenhouse...
