The electricity demand in India is growing more rapidly than in any other large economy. As capacity in solar and wind grows, the task for the Indian government is no longer about generating energy but about creating infrastructure to deliver it to every household and factory. The electricity grid in India recorded a new high…
India plans to increase coal gasification capacity to 100 MTPA by 2030 to reduce imports and boost domestic production. However, environmental experts warn that pollution, carbon emissions, water stress, and public health concerns could undermine the promise of “clean coal.”
Climate discourse often treats decarbonisation like a universal one-pot recipe: add renewables, subtract fossil fuels, stir in net-zero targets, and serve before 2050. But for countries in the Global South such as India, still navigating poverty alleviation, industrial growth, and reliable energy access simultaneously, the transition cannot be copypasted from the Global North template. India…
On the morning of World Environment Day 2026, Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri did something deceptively simple: he filled up a car. The vehicle was a Maruti Suzuki Wagon R Flex Fuel. This was India’s first mass-market flex-fuel car, launched just a day earlier. The fuel was E85, a blend of 80–85% ethanol and 14-19%…
As India races to become a global AI hub, its data centres are quietly consuming water from some of the country’s most stressed aquifers. The environmental cost of India’s digital economy is a policy conversation we are overdue to have. Every time you stream a film on a Mumbai morning commute, every email you send…
India’s climate and energy discourse has entered a more mature phase, marked by a shifting intent from binding targets to inculcating a system readiness approach and embedding it into policy design. The outlining of India’s climate action strategies in the Economic Survey 2025-26 is notable because it repositions climate change as a structural economic variable…
The green economy is positioned at the centre of long-term economic development in India’s Viksit Bharat 2047 vision. It comes as a strategic frontier at par with sunrise sectors like fintech, semiconductors, pharmaceuticals and AI data centers. According to the CEEW’s latest report India’s green economy has the potential to generate USD 1.1 trillion (INR…
Photo Credit: Antara Mrinal Clear Cut Livelihood DeskNew Delhi, UPDATED: Oct 21, 2025 01:53 ISTWritten By: Antara Mrinal The Eastern Mediterranean has hardly caught its breath, before the rattling of the Israel-Gaza flare-up is felt across global foreign policy conduit and energy markets. For a country such as India, reliant on imported energy, the message is succinct:…
Photo Credit: Climate Action Tracker Clear Cut Climate DeskNew Delhi, UPDATED: Sep 15, 2025 02:30 ISTWritten By: Antara Mrinal India is at a pivotal moment in its climate journey. While many praise India’s development of renewable energy, new policies, and ambitious long-term commitments, new analysis has highlighted the difference between these policies and the styles…
Photo Credit: Batx Energies Clear Cut Livelihood DeskNew Delhi, UPDATED: Sep 09, 2025 04:20 ISTWritten By: Antara Mrinal When the Geological Survey of India made an announcement in February 2023 that there is an inferred resource of 5.9 million tonnes of lithium ore in Reasi, Jammu & Kashmir, it felt as a small tremor in…
