Nikhil Singh

Nikhil Singh is a Senior Correspondent at The ESG India, covering ESG, CSR, sustainability and government policy across India. He reports on corporate accountability, climate action and social impact.
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SEBI reopens the ESG ratings rulebook, and the pay-for-rating conflict is still there

Mumbai - SEBI has constituted a working group to review the regulatory…

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The single-use plastic ban now runs on barcodes, where the producer is registered

New Delhi - India has stopped adding items to its single-use plastic…

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India climate finance taxonomy has to define transition without defining it away

New Delhi - India is building a classification system to decide what…

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RBI climate disclosure lands on banks, and Scope 3 is the whole balance sheet

Mumbai - Indian banks have begun reporting how climate change could damage…

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Colgate India reports 11 million children reached, and what that number does not tell you

Mumbai - Colgate-Palmolive India reported reaching 11 million children and their families…

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Biodiversity benefit sharing reaches 20 per cent of sales, and now covers gene sequences

Chennai - Any Indian company with turnover above one crore rupees that…

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India defines green steel at 2.2 tonnes of carbon, and leaves cement undefined

New Delhi - India published a taxonomy of green steel in December…

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Greenwashing rules put every eco-friendly claim on the packaging at risk

New Delhi - Two years after the Central Consumer Protection Authority put…

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Green credits now require trees to be alive after five years, not merely planted

New Delhi - The government has rewritten how green credits are earned…

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