Blogs

Climate Policy

As India moves toward 500 GW of non-fossil capacity, energy storage will be central to grid stability. Our review of India’s public storage RD&D portfolio reveals a strong bet on batteries. But what does this concentration mean for long-term system flexibility and innovation diversity?

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Climate Policy

Union Budget announcements signal which technologies the government wants to scale up. Whether they actually scale depends on choosing the right policy instruments and designing them to remove the key bottleneck at each stage of diffusion. Using a five-stage diffusion framework, this blog explains why early alignment improves the chances of faster diffusion and more durable outcomes.

Opinions

Climate Policy

India is rapidly expanding its artificial intelligence infrastructure, from semiconductor manufacturing partnerships like the Tata PSMC project to a projected 9GW data centre capacity by 2030. This AI-led growth brings significant environmental challenges, including high water and energy use, increased e-waste, and weak regulatory oversight. Can India achieve digital leadership without worsening environmental vulnerabilities?

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Climate Policy

India has committed heavily to scaling green hydrogen, but what does its public R&D portfolio reveal about its innovation strategy? Drawing on a review of nearly 250 publicly funded projects, this piece examines where India’s hydrogen R&D is concentrated, where gaps persist, and the strategic choices shaping whether India competes primarily on cost or on technology leadership.

Opinions

Climate Policy

Assessing climate ambition based on what a country says, rather than what it does or is likely to do, is a problem for at least three reasons: ambition is normatively loaded and hard to compare across countries; there’s little evidence of a clear link between ambition of pledges and what countries actually do; domestic political shifts, not global cooperation, have been a more effective driver of climate action.

Blogs

Climate Policy

Global discourse on climate change has been moulded by multilateral negotiations through the annual Conferences of the Parties (COPs). This commentary traces the evolution of climate multilateralism, examines where it falls short of expectations, and discusses how it can address its shortcomings to build a more effective ambition and implementation agenda.

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Climate Policy

Climate finance discussions should recognise future emissions are attributable to developed countries.

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Climate Policy

Behind the 100 GW milestone lies a structural vulnerability: India’s solar research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) base is still evolving and leans heavily on imports, leaving the country exposed to supply-chain shocks and sovereignty risks. We map India’s public solar RD&D landscape and analyse whether the country should align with global trajectories or carve out its own leadership.

Journal articles

Climate Policy

Climate policy is now a more multi-stranded and complex area of inquiry than ever before. In these uncertain times for climate action and climate cooperation, attention to broader questions is necessary to deepen understanding and work toward a truly effective response to climate change. What sorts of questions and analysis might be of continued, and even enhanced, relevance for analysis in Climate Policy?