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Sunday, November 16, 2025
TopicCarbon Credit

Topic: Carbon Credit

Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol’s commute to work isn’t just about coffee. It’s carbon hypocrisy

We’re expected to weigh carbon pros and cons of carpools & public transport, while the rich treat the sky as their personal playground. And we’re left to imbibe bits of paper straw with our coffee.

9 Indian projects to cut carbon emissions ‘worthless’, finds climate change report

NGO Corporate Accountability & 'The Guardian' analyse data of top 50 carbon offset projects in the world and identify 39 as not accounting for cutting any extra greenhouse emissions.

Maharashtra farmers making money with carbon credits. They’re climate champions, not victims

A farmer can earn upto Rs 65,000 per acre per year from forest harvest & carbon revenue. They now earn just Rs 10,000 through paddy cultivation.

Markets are questioning quality of carbon credits, community-based products the new hype

Carbon markets are bringing unprecedented finance to ecological protection, but market frenzy also creating opportunities for greenwashing, creative carbon accounting.

A fierce battle rages between India’s economy and ecology. ‘Pricing’ nature’s services can help

Making environmental destruction costly – either through carbon tax or mandatory offset credits – can help solve climate problems.

On Camera

What Pakistan Supreme Court judge Mansoor Ali Shah wrote in his resignation letter

The recent resignations of its seniormost judges are among the most pointed institutional protests Pakistan has witnessed since the lawyers’ movement of the late 2000s.

As govt starts rolling back Quality Control Orders, a look at adverse impact they had, mainly on MSMEs

Between 2016 and 2025, around 700 QCOs were issued by the government. Now, it has withdrawn 69 of them.

Drone manufacturer ideaForge wins orders worth over Rs 100 crore from Army

ideaForge has formed a joint venture to manufacture and market UAVs in the US. Its Q6 UAV is now included in NATO and allied procurement systems.

INDIA has a Congress-sized hole. And the fix begins with a little humility

Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.