M Rajshekhar

On January 13, US President Donald Trump slapped a 25% tariff on any country doing business with Iran. The news was received with consternation in Iran and beyond. Oil is Teheran’s biggest export — with China..

What Malaysia’s experience with Sustainable Palm Oil tells us about tropical deforestation — and CBAM….

The final part of CarbonCopy’s 5-part Forest series. From water to wildlife, the costs of…

Part 4 of CarbonCopy’s forest series finds that even as the Forest Survey of India…

As kattha manufacturing winds down in Uttar Pradesh and picks up in Kashmir, Uttarakhand, Himachal…

In the second part of CarbonCopy’s series on India’s native forests, we trace the illicit…

CarbonCopy launches a new 4-part series on the state of India’s native forests, beginning in…

The country has to set short-term pain against the long-term costs of the trade concessions…

Even as US and China begin talks, the Global South should not play ball and…

The new tariffs are likely to trigger a global reset in supply chains and climate…

The SEC’s chargesheet on Adani and Azure indicate that renewable energy regulation is in trouble….

Part 3 of CarbonCopy’s three-part series on India’s solar sector finds that discoms are struggling…

Part 2 of CarbonCopy’s three-part series on the solar industry explores why despite lacking scale,…

In the first instalment of a three-part series on India’s solar sector, CarbonCopy uncovers a…

A recent scientific discovery of polymetallic nodules producing “dark oxygen” at the bottom of the…

As the current administration ends its second term, CarbonCopy presents a report card on India’s…

In part 2 of this series, CarbonCopy explores how India is pushing for dams with…

This is a two-part series on Sikkim’s failed dam ambitions and its implications on India’s…

As the demand for fossil fuels drops in the West, oil-rich countries such as the…

Part Two of CarbonCopy’s series on palm oil focuses on how big hitters in states…

In the first of a two-part series on India’s plans to increase palm oil production,…

NPCIL is forming joint ventures, Niti Aayog is keen on SMRs. Unresolved questions swirl around both….

The country needs to decarbonise. Its renewables face charges of intermittency. Is nuclear the answer?…

In the concluding part of this series on critical minerals, CarbonCopy explores how localisation is…

In part 2 of the series on critical minerals in India, CarbonCopy explores how India’s…

In the first installment of a three-part series that explores India’s efforts to bolster its…

And how will the contagion affect India’s ‘green growth’ ambitions? In early February, as the…

For a fuller understanding of how India’s manufacturing push will reshape India, the country need…

In the second part of the series on production-linked initiatives (PLIs) in the renewables sector,…

India has stepped into the global race to dominate the “industries of the future”. Its…

In the third part of this series, CarbonCopy looks at why states may ultimately bear…

India’s previous hydel push fell to political rent-extraction and speculation. The current one faces competition…

The NDA govt is looking at hydel power to balance the grid as it moves…

The fourth—and concluding—report in this series looks at the costs of accelerated decarbonisation in a…

Even as the global price of electrolysers looks set to fall, carbon-capture technologies continue to…

The first report in this series had looked at India’s capacity to produce for the emerging energy transition. This…

Intentions aside, there are a series of issues that the country must urgently resolve in…

With the oil economy on its way out, and a clear low-carbon pathway for the…

Adding decarbonisation to the to-do list of a country already battling high emission levels, modest…

The final installment of CarbonCopy’s series on India’s solar sector explores how obsolete market designs…

This installment of CarbonCopy’s series on India’s solar sector explores the two big reasons why…

This installment of CarbonCopy’s series on India’s solar sector explores all the reasons why solar…

Even with falling tariffs, growth in the sector is slowing, and a rising number of…

As large firms in the power sector pick up distribution and transmission assets, the life…

“We do not want to be a coal mining company any longer. We do not…

As CarbonCopy reported in the middle of last year, India’s energy policy is distinctly muddled. By 2030,…

Joe Biden’s election to the highest office in the US is likely to hold implications…

India’s plans to remake itself into a gas-based economy are floundering. As the previous story…

Gas had fifteen years to establish itself in India. Seven of those years are gone…

The short answer is ‘No’. In March this year, union minister Dharmendra Pradhan published an…