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 ban and started trying to enforce the list it already has. The instrument of choice is not an…
India climate finance taxonomy has to define transition without defining it away
New Delhi - India is building a classification system to decide what counts as climate finance, aiming to direct roughly 250 billion dollars a year toward activities consistent with net…
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 their loan books, under a Reserve Bank of India framework that phases in over three years and ends…
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 through oral health education in financial year 2025-26, across some 35,000 schools, in its Annual and ESG Report…
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 uses biological resources must now file an annual statement of what it used, under regulations notified by the…
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 2024, defining the term by measured carbon intensity rather than by assertion. Steel below 2.2 tonnes of carbon…
Greenwashing rules put every eco-friendly claim on the packaging at risk
New Delhi - Two years after the Central Consumer Protection Authority put its greenwashing rules into force, the compliance burden is landing where most companies did not expect it: not…
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 for tree planting, replacing a count of saplings with a test of whether the trees are alive five…
