The India Innovation Lab for Green Finance
Date : January 14, 2022
The India Innovation Lab for Green Finance brings together experts from government, financial institutions, renewable energy, and infrastructure development to identify, develop, and accelerate innovative investment vehicles for green growth in India. More details on the website: https://www.climatefinancelab.org/...
Analyzing Trends in Clean Energy Financing by State Governments
Date : January 14, 2022
State governments have access to several finance options for climate change mitigation but administrative issues within state governments have led to sizeable under utilisation of available funds for climate-related investments. The reports in this initiative aim to analyse the mitigation-oriented climate finance options available to state governments within their budgets and state or central sche...
Understanding the Bottlenecks in the Adoption of TCFD Recommendations by Indian Corporates
Date : January 14, 2022
A majority India's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are directly or indirectly related to the corporate sector. Therefore, Indian businesses can play an important role in helping India achieve its Nationally Determined Contributions under the Paris Agreement. Increasingly, corporates in India are beginning to recognise and measure climate related outcomes. However, the methodologies being used, prim...
A Decade of India’s Solar and Wind Policies : Lessons and Way Forward
Date : January 13, 2022
In 2015, India announced ambitious targets for renewable energy—175 GW by 2022—one of the largest expansion initiatives in the world. Just four years later, at the United Nations Climate Action Summit 2019, the Prime Minister of India pledged to increase India’s renewable energy (RE) capacity to 450 GW by 2030. India’s journey to reaching these targets is at a critical juncture. However, t...
Appraisal Checklist for Urban Transport Projects
Date : December 12, 2021
Indicators have been developed for five categories of projects namely transport planning, public transport, non-motorised transport, transport infrastructure and urban freight....
Corporate Action on Climate Change
Date : December 12, 2021
Most greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in India are directly or indirectly related to the corporate (both public and privately-owned) sector and their full cooperation is required for India to meet its NDC commitments. Science-based targets (SBTs) provide companies with a clearly defined pathway to future-proof growth by specifying how much and how quickly they need to reduce their greenhouse gas emi...
Climate Risk Pricing Approaches for Investment Portfolios in India
Date : December 12, 2021
Given India’s extremely high sensitivity to climate-risk , it is important to develop advanced frameworks for our local context that can assist in climate risk identification and quantification for investment portfolios and suggest options for appropriate climate risk mitigation. Doing so requires an understanding of the current level of deployment of climate-risk quantification & pricing approa...