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- Climate & Nature
Ocean Warming Shrinks Suitable Habitat for Japanese Chum Salmon
Marine habitats suitable for Japanese chum salmon have declined significantly over the past 25 years due to ocean warming, reduced zooplankton availability and increasingly frequent marine heatwaves, …
- ESG Movers
PM Surya Ghar Scheme Reaches Over 32 Lakh Households Across India
The PM Surya Ghar Muft Bijli Yojana has installed 25,87,685 rooftop solar systems and benefitted 32,02,697 households since its launch in February 2024, Union Minister Pralhad Joshi informed the Lok S…
- Sustainable Finance
ADB report urges scaled forest protection across Asia and Pacific
The Asian Development Bank released an analysis on the role of forest ecosystems in meeting climate and biodiversity targets across Asia and the Pacific, advocating Forest Landscape Restoration, high-…
- ESG Movers
Indian Oil signs MoU with Re Sustainability for used-oil recycling
Indian Oil Corporation signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Re Sustainability Limited to build a nationwide system for collecting, aggregating and re-refining used oil. The partnership aligns wit…
- ESG Movers
Adani Group expands Swabhimaan Programme targeting 10 lakh women entrepreneurs
Adani Group, through the Adani Foundation and led by Dr. Priti Adani, expanded its Swabhimaan Programme with the aim of empowering 10 lakh women entrepreneurs across India via skill development, finan…
- ESG Movers
Ghaziabad secures ₹13.4 crore CSR funding for integrated development
Ghaziabad district secured ₹13.4 crore in corporate social responsibility funding, coordinated by district administration with multiple corporates, for projects across health, education and environmen…
- Climate & Nature
Reliance Signs USD 3 Billion Green Ammonia Supply Agreement with Samsung C&T
India's Reliance Industries has signed a USD 3 billion green ammonia supply agreement with South Korean construction and engineering company Samsung C&T, described as one of the largest long-term gree…
- Climate & Nature
Climate Change Compounds Rhino Poaching Threat in Kaziranga and Jaldapara
Climate change is increasingly recognised as a compounding threat to greater one-horned rhinoceros populations in India, with extreme weather events displacing rhinos from protected areas and economic…
- Climate & Nature
Tamil Nadu Targets India's First Offshore Wind Farm After Onshore Slowdown
Tamil Nadu, which set up India's first commercial wind farms in 1986 and developed the country's largest onshore wind farm at Muppandal with 1.5 GW capacity, is now pursuing India's first offshore win…
- Regulations
New Waste Rules Create Compliance Gaps Between Pollution Boards and Local Bodies
India's Solid Waste Management Rules notified in January 2026, set to take effect from April 1, create a structural accountability gap by distributing oversight, operational management and compliance …
- Climate & Nature
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu Generate 23 Per Cent of India's Renewable Energy
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu together account for 23 per cent of India's renewable energy generation and are leading the country's energy transition, with Karnataka holding 10 per cent and Tamil Nadu 12 p…
- Standards & Frameworks
Analysis: EU Omnibus Competitiveness Framing Risks Conflating Compliance Burden with Sustainability Value
A commentary by Manifest Climate argues that framing the EU Omnibus I simplification package as a competitiveness measure misrepresents the relationship between sustainability disclosure and corporate…
- Sustainable Finance
ICVCM Report Calls for Standardised Carbon Market Infrastructure and Fee Transparency
The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market has published findings from its Continuous Improvement Work Program on Market Transparency, Scalability and Standardisation, identifying fragmente…
- Climate & Nature
Bhutan's $100 Tourism Fee Generates Nu 43 Million for Conservation and Services
Bhutan's Sustainable Development Fee of $100 per night per person generated Nu 43.31 million in 2025 and funds free healthcare, education and forest conservation in the country, offering a behavioural…
- Climate & Nature
India's 2026 Waste Rules Mandate Digital Portal for National Compliance Tracking
India's new Solid Waste Management Rules, notified in January 2026 to replace the decade-old 2016 framework from April 1, introduce a centralised digital portal requiring mandatory registration and pe…
- Climate & Nature
Africa's External Debt Tops $1 Trillion as Fossil Fuel Extraction Expands
African governments are expanding fossil fuel production to service mounting external debt, which has doubled since 2020 to over $1 trillion, with interest payments more than doubling over 15 years to…
- Climate & Nature
Maharashtra Village Receives Rs 68 Lakh After Firm Uses Soil Bacteria Commercially
Dapur village in Maharashtra's Nashik district received Rs 67,69,359 in its Gram Panchayat account in November 2025 under India's Access and Benefit Sharing mechanism, after biotechnology firm Advance…
- Sustainable Finance
India CSR spending reached ₹34,909 crore in FY24
Indian companies collectively allocated ₹34,909 crore to CSR initiatives in financial year 2023-24, about 13 percent higher than the prior year, per the National CSR Portal tracking Section 135 compli…
- ESG Movers
Vedanta Aluminium launches Vedamrit honey FPO in Odisha
Vedanta Aluminium launched the Vedamrit Jibika Farmer Producer Organization, now recognised as Eastern India's largest honey FPO, distributing honeybee boxes and training over 500 farmers in Jharsugud…
- ESG Movers
P&G SEHAT Boat Clinic expands healthcare access in Assam's char islands
Procter & Gamble Health Limited expanded its SEHAT Boat Clinic, a fully equipped floating healthcare unit, to deliver primary and maternal care to remote river-island communities along the Brahmaputra…
- Climate & Nature
Parliament Told 350 sq km of Himalayan Tree Cover Lost Since 2021
India's Parliament learned that tree cover in the Indian Himalayan Region fell by 351.61 square kilometres between 2021 and 2023, according to the India State of Forest Report 2023. The disclosure cam…
- Climate & Nature
Four Decades of M C Mehta Litigation Transforms Delhi Air Quality Governance
The M C Mehta pollution case, originating from a 1985 oleum gas leak, has over four decades forced Delhi to shut coal plants, convert its entire public transport fleet to CNG and leapfrog emission sta…
- Climate & Nature
India's Frugal AI Model Offers Alternative to Energy-Intensive Global Approach
Training GPT-4 required over 50 gigawatt-hours of electricity, and global data centres now account for roughly 1.5 per cent of total electricity consumption — a share expected to double by 2030 as AI …
- Climate & Nature
India Pauses 1 GW Offshore Wind Tender Amid Global Cost Concerns
India has prepared but not yet launched a 1 GW offshore wind tender after the Solar Energy Corporation of India cancelled two prior tenders totalling 4.5 GW in August 2025 due to a complete absence of…