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COP30 at halftime sees EU pushback on India, China's CBAM, finance moves

Two issues on financial obligations of developed countries and unilateral trade agreements were dropped from the COP agenda after resistance from developed nations

India's 2025 emission rate to fall but global jump raises warming alarm

India's projected CO₂ emissions growth of 1% (38.9 GtCO₂/year) is higher than the global average and China's 0.4%, but lower than the US rate of 1.9%

India unfolds priorities in Belem but yet to show its climate cards

2025 was among the 3 hottest years on record, accompanied by a record-breaking glacier loss, lowest Arctic sea ice on record and record increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide from 2023-24

The Baku to Belem road map has a crucial hurdle: The missing leaders

The reluctance of developed nations like the UK to foot the climate bill and the US withdrawal among key challenges to mobilise $1.3 trillion by 2035

The slow energy switch: IOC, BPCL, HPCL need faster ride to net-zero goals

Given their outsized contribution to air pollution & net-zero targets, state-run oil firms must accelerate cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. The country's hobbling renewable projects may delay plans

Nations look to India's energy transition experience for lessons: Ghosh

Arunabha Ghosh, founder & CEO of Delhi-based think tank CEEW, speaks about his role as an envoy for South Asian nations at the Conference of Parties

Offshore wind plan 2.0 faces global headwinds in India's renewable journey

India has no offshore wind capacity but is on track to commission record 6 Gw of onshore wind capacity in FY26, says Joshi

Falling Saudi Arabia LPG prices likely to help refiners breathe easy

Saudi benchmark contract prices (CPs) for November for propane and butane, blended to make LPG, dropped to their lowest since August 2023 - $475 and $460 a tonne

COP30 Brasil: India seeks green dollars as Gates mutes climate doom

As COP30 heads to Belem, India aims to push finance and tech for the Global South - but will it bring real capital or just more promises and targets?

COP out? The world's climate talks on global warming seem stuck in repeat

30 years, 30 COPs - still counting degrees. Is this where promises go to melt? This two-part series on COP30 tracks how the UN's flagship climate summit lost its direction and what's at stake

Russian oil may flow to India through loopholes despite new US sanctions

Trump announced fresh sanctions on two of Russia's largest oil companies in a bid to stop the Ukraine war. But this is not likely to spell the end of Russian oil flows to India, a major buyer

We need to start proper landfill management, says Guillaume Dourdin

Guillaume Dourdin, CEO of Veolia India, says the country's growing waste and water challenges offer vast potential for sustainable business growth and innovation

Coal may singe net-zero journey as India readies updated climate pledge

Indian policymakers are drawing up an updated climate change pledge to be presented to the UN by early November. The world's watching closely

US, Saudi Arabia vie for larger share of India's crude oil import pie

Amid global oversupply, the US is emerging as a cost-competitive oil supplier to India, challenging Saudi Arabia and other Gulf producers even as Russian barrels dominate

Slow bidding for renewable energy projects threatens climate goals

A capacity of around 40.2 Gw was auctioned in FY25, following a record 47.3 Gw in FY24, according to Icra Research, based on government data

India's first private-sector nuclear tender plagued by cost, funding issues

There are 687 queries bothering bidders, documents show, with financing being the thorn, followed by issues of cost over high service charges by NPCIL

An uncertain pivot: India's energy sector battles taxes, global turmoil

Energy security was what was occupying the minds of officials from India's oil ministry in 2024 when they burnt the midnight oil for months

India's crawling renewable bidding activity threatens climate targets

The slowdown in renewable tendering comes even as India prepares its new Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) to UN, to be presented by November, which will detail clean energy targets for 2035

Economics trumps politics: India's US oil, LNG imports slump sharply

India is guided solely by economics when sourcing oil and LNG rather than geopolitics, and the government does not interfere in decisions by state-oil companies, September data shows

India gears up to embrace carbon market plans to counter climate criticism

Emissions targets have been announced till 2027, and a new set of targets and sectors will be finalised in FY27 for the FY28-30 period