Recurring urban flooding in Bengaluru, India, has brought multiple intersecting development challenges to the forefront.
While clean power generation is crucial, India’s energy transition requires concerted efforts from all actors in the power sector value chain.
Small industries or micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) are a crucial sector in India’s development.
Rooftop solar (RTS) has the potential to revolutionise India’s energy landscape, offering a sustainable, decentralised, and affordable solution to meet the country’s growing electricity needs and making consumers self-reliant.
India marked its presence as a serious contender in the green hydrogen space at the World Hydrogen Summit in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, which happened in May this year.
Sea level rise (SLR) has been recognised as the most serious global threat.
Climate change brought on by fossil-fuel burning and greenhouse gas emissions has led to a steady increase in global temperatures.
India has an ambitious goal of adding 450 GW of renewable energy by 2030.
Despite its enormous potential, India has thus far lagged behind its global peers with no installed offshore wind capacity in the country despite the international market size reaching close to 75 GW.
India’s urban areas are expected to house about 600 million people by 2031 and 850 million people by 2051, as per the Handbook of Urban Statistics (2016) by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.
India, the fifth largest economy in the world, is ambitiously striving to achieve a USD 5-trillion economy in the near future, positioning itself among the top three global economies.
On 21 March, the Supreme Court, in a judgement regarding a public interest litigation (PIL) on protecting and conserving the critically endangered Great Indian Bustard (GIB), noted that people have a fundamental right to be free from the adverse effects of climate change.
The Indian Railways is one of the largest railway networks in the world, transporting millions of passengers and tonnes of freight daily.
India has witnessed remarkable growth in the solar sector over the last decade.
The announcement of India’s 2070 net-zero target has demonstrated the power of a credible policy signal and changed the course of India’s climate debate.
