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Monday, January 26, 2026
TopicCarbon market

Topic: Carbon market

Carbon markets won’t work in India. There’s one alternative to explore

A lax carbon market will be flooded with cheap credits that do little to reduce emissions. Too strict a system and companies may resist participation.

COP29 concluded with meaningful progress, says UNDP

The UNDP Administrator hailed the carbon market framework and the $300 billion pledged by developed nations as affirmations of the Paris Agreement's commitment.

India’s energy transition goals need an ESG push. But there’s little clarity on what it is

Survey data shows that 32 per cent of European investors say that ESG is essential to their investment approach.

India’s green energy firms join hands to develop carbon credit market

Adani Greens, EKI Energy Services and Hero Future Energies are some of the names that will aim to act as mediator between govt and industry and facilitate trade of carbon credits.

Carbon market in India is long time coming. But Modi govt can learn from these mistakes

Elsewhere, the creation of a carbon market has been informed by constructive debates between industry and civil society. In India, people just don't care.

Top polluter China in focus as UN climate talks begin in Madrid

As climate warnings become more severe, the focus is shifting from creating more green power toward stopping emissions, putting a harsher spotlight on China.

On Camera

Mark Tully was a colossus on the Indian subcontinent. He had sources at all levels

I was in Islamabad when Mark Tully broke the news of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto being hanged. I held it against him—he could have tipped me off. But he was a journalist before he was a friend.

India wants Canada’s resources as nations build on truce, British Columbia’s Premier says

Premier David Eby, the leader of the minerals- and gas-rich province of British Columbia, spoke with executives at Tata Steel and Reliance Industries on a trade mission to India.

Shaurya Chakra for Lt Col who led op to ‘eliminate’ terror leadership along Indo-Myanmar border

President Murmu has also conferred Kirti Chakra on Major Arshdeep Singh of 1 Assam Rifles for eliminating armed cadres when patrol led by him came under fire along Indo-Myanmar Border last May.

Non-alignment is coming back in a new avatar: Trump-peedit alliance

No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.