Climate Policy Initiative - India

Dalberg and CEO CIEU are hosting the 𝗕𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗮𝘁 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝘂𝗺 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱—a premier platform dedicated to driving clean tech manufacturing and shaping a sustainable future for India. The forum will convene changemakers from diverse sectors to address pressing challenges and opportunities in building a resilient green economy. Key discussions include: 𝗢𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵: How India can lead in renewable energy and green mobility manufacturing 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: Innovative strategies to scale clean tech through investments and development finance 𝗦𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆: Building local capabilities for electric vehicles, fuel cells, and charging infrastructure 𝗜𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁: The importance of skilled talent and policies to strengthen the clean tech ecosystem 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽𝘀: Cross-sector, regional, and global collaborations to drive technology transfer, trade, and shared sustainability goals 📅 January 10, 2025 📍 ITC Maurya, New Delhi For invitations, please contact Jagjeet Sareen at [email protected]. NITI Aayog Invest India The World Bank TERI - The Energy and Resources Institute NSEFI - National Solar Energy Federation of India RMI Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW) QUEST Alliance Iora Ecological Solutions World Biogas Association India Energy Storage Alliance (IESA) Climate Policy Initiative MEC Intelligence Indian Institute of Foreign Trade Third World Network Ram Madhav Ashwani Mahajan Meenakshi Lekhi Bhupinder Bhalla Anilesh Mahajan International Solar Alliance

🌍 Landscape of Green Finance in India: The Way Forward for Transformational Change🌍 Key Takeaways from Our Latest Report The “Landscape of Green Finance in India” report comprehensively analyzes India’s green finance flows for 2021 and 2022, offering critical insights into the country’s progress toward its climate goals. With India requiring significant investments—around INR 11 trillion (USD 170 billion) annually—to meet its Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) by 2030, understanding financial flows is crucial. This report evaluates public and private investments, highlights funding gaps, and identifies opportunities to mobilize green capital. It serves as a vital resource for policymakers, investors, and stakeholders aiming to accelerate climate action and foster sustainable economic growth. Authors: Jaspreet Kaur, Anup Samal, Uma Pal, Malini Chakravarty, Vivek Sen, Aanandita Sikka #ClimateChange #GreenFinance #SustainableDevelopment #ClimateAction

🌍 Join CPI and help drive global urban climate action! 🌱 We're hiring a Portuguese-speaking Analyst to support the Cities Climate Finance Leadership Alliance (CCFLA), focusing on tracking urban climate finance, supporting subnational access to funding, and engaging global partners. This role is key to closing the urban climate finance gap, with a focus on Brazil and other regions. Could be based in: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | London, UK | Washington, DC, USA Ready to make an impact? Apply now! 🌍✨ https://lnkd.in/dbtKK8sv

For the launch of 'Landscape of Green Finance in India 2024', Center for Sustainable Finance (CSF), Climate Policy Initiative - India (CPI) organized a panel discussion on ‘Landscape of Green Finance in India: The Way Forward for Transformational Change’ moderated by Vivek Sen, Director, Climate Policy Initiative - India. 🌱 Key Takeaways from Panel Discussion on Green Finance 🌱 Simmi Sareen from Climake highlighted progress in private capital flows for climate but stressed the need for clear business models. A distinction between private capital-driven opportunities and public goods requiring government support is crucial. Sectors like sustainable food systems, cooling, water, satellite mapping, and weather prediction hold potential for private finance for adaptation. Supporting players in nascent climate sectors will eventually encourage other players to crowd in. Upendra Bhatt from cKinetics emphasized the role of specialized green institutions in ensuring loss absorbability and scaling finance. Combining venture debt and asset financing is key to accelerating green investments. Neha Kumar from Climate Bonds Initiative underlined the importance of integrating the climate finance taxonomy into India’s regulatory framework. This should align with the Business Responsibility and Sustainability Reporting (BRSR) framework and be inclusive. Through the taxonomy, India can lead in adaptation and resilience. A pipeline of green projects and collaboration between banks, domestic DFIs, and investors are essential to drive green investment. Dhruba Purkayastha, PhD from Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW) identified three focus areas to boost green finance: 1️ Channel more funding through banks and capital markets. 2️ Create institutions dedicated to green investments. 3️ Complement market interest with debt financing. Additionally, he stressed that adaptation areas like technology for resilience building and insurance could channel private finance, but viable business models remain challenging due to their public goods nature. Public finance will play a critical role here. A big thank you to all the speakers for their insightful contributions! #ClimateChange #GreenFinance #SustainableDevelopment #ClimateAction

Report Launch | Landscape of Green Finance in India: The Way Forward for Transformational Change We are thrilled to unveil a report from the Center for Sustainable Finance (CSF) at Climate Policy Initiative - India (CPI) that presents an analysis of actual spending and investment data from India’s union and state budgets, national and international DFIs; corporate, residential, commercial, and institutional stakeholders; and PSUs for two financial years: 2021 and 2022. It establishes a trail of funding flows from sources and intermediaries through different financial instruments to sectors and subsectors. To access the complete report, please visit: https://lnkd.in/gW3TDBYg Authors: Jaspreet Kaur, Anup Samal, Uma Pal, Malini Chakravarty, Vivek Sen, Aanandita Sikka Jagjeet Sareen, Bhaskar Natarajan, Runa Sarkar, Neha Khanna, Saarthak Khurana, Debal Mitra #ClimateChange #GreenFinance #SustainableDevelopment #ClimateAction

Join us for an insightful panel discussion on ‘Landscape of Green Finance in India: The Way Forward for Transformational Change.’ Our distinguished panelists bring a wealth of expertise in green finance and diverse perspectives to the table: Moderator: Vivek Sen, Director, Climate Policy Initiative - India Panelists: 1. Upendra Bhatt, CEO, cKinetics 2. Simmi Sareen, Co-founder, Climake 3. Dhruba Purkayastha, PhD, Director, Growth and Institutional Advancement, Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW) 4. Neha Kumar, Head, South Asia Programme, Climate Bonds Initiative Date: 11th December Time: 10:15 am Venue: India Habitat Centre, New Delhi Join the launch event to engage in a meaningful discussion with experts as we explore pathways for scaling green finance to enable India’s low-carbon and resilient development. #ClimateChange #GreenFinance #SustainableDevelopment #ClimateAction

#Announcement | Report Launch India is highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, ranking 7th most affected by weather-related losses and climate risks globally in 2021. Furthermore, over 80% of India’s population lives in districts vulnerable to extreme hydro-meteorological disasters. If emissions do not significantly reduce relative to current levels, global average warming will reach 3°C by 2070. This pathway can lead to estimated economic losses of around 12.5% of India's GDP in 2070 alone. India has significantly scaled green finance and accelerated climate action. This momentum needs to continue to steer the country’s economy towards low-carbon and resilient development. Join us for the launch of the report, ‘Landscape of Green Finance in India,’ by Climate Policy Initiative - India’s Analysts, Jaspreet Kaur, Anup Samal, Senior Analyst Uma Pal, Research Manager Malini Chakravarty, and Director Vivek Sen, Aanandita Sikka. This report presents the latest findings, measuring public and private sources of green capital in India for 2021 and 2022. Date: 11th December 2024 (Wednesday) Time: 10:15 am Venue: India Habitat Centre, New Delhi  To attend the event, please reach out to [email protected] #ClimateChange #GreenFinance #SustainableDevelopment #ClimateAction

I am honoured to have got the opportunity to present the findings of our work on "Financing Adaptation in India" and putting it in the context of cities in India. For more on this please see: https://lnkd.in/gQFDiXJY Thank you C40 Cities, the UrbanShift, for inviting Climate Policy Initiative, Climate Policy Initiative - India to be part of the first-ever C40 Adaptation Finance Academy for Indian Cities. Thank you, Barbara Barros, Shruti Narayan and the rest of the team for the extremely productive Academy!

Climate Policy Initiative - India’s Analyst, Jaspreet Kaur, participated in a COP29 side event organized by Mainstreaming Climate in Financial Institutions on ‘Supporting Climate Risk Management Practices: How Financial Institutions Go Beyond Disclosures.’ The event emphasized the importance of climate risk management for financial institutions, which can help them better contribute to addressing global climate risks, increase resilience in local economies, and go further beyond risk disclosure. Jaspreet Kaur shared her views on which climate risks are material to which type of investors, when, and how, providing practical insights to guide decision-making. She highlighted how climate-related risk trajectories and transmission channels vary across different investor classes, such as banks, financial institutions, institutional investors, and equity investors, depending on factors like investment horizon, investment size, and portfolio diversification. By embedding climate considerations into financial decision-making, lenders and investors can better mitigate climate risks and position themselves as drivers of positive change, which is no longer a choice but a strategic necessity. #COP29 #GreenFinance #ClimateRisk #SustainableFinance #ClimateAction

Green finance stakeholders to gather for the launch of Climate Policy Initiative - India’s report on 11 December 2024 #GreenFinance #SustainableDevelopment #NetZeroIndia #RenewableEnergy #ClimateFinance #Sustainability #India2030 #ClimateSolutions #India #ESG