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Impact investing in the social enterprises sector pursues the dual aims of providing net positive financial returns along with creating socio-economic value for the marginalized, and provides the promise of a future for sustainable businesses, write Mr Souvik Bhattacharjya, Senior Fellow and Associate Director, Resource Efficiency and Governance Division, TERI and Ms Mahima Mall, TERI School of Advanced Studies.
The needs of women and communities most vulnerable to climate change should be front and centre of negotiations in Sharm el Sheikh, writes We Mean Business CEO Dr Maria Mendiluce and TERI's Dr Vibha Dhawan.
The advanced industrial economies need to act now to decarbonise rapidly on a war footing. Their actions must match their rhetoric. That is the only hope to restrict global warming to 1.5 degrees, writes Mr Ajay Shankar, Distinguished Fellow, TERI.
Loss and damage due to climate change is still an inexact science, so the controversy over the scale and nature of assistance for meeting loss and damage is likely, says Mr R R Rashmi, Distinguished Fellow, TERI.
Discussions at the high-level ministerial dialogue will centre on setting new long-term financial goals for 2025 and beyond says Mr Dipak Dasgupta, Distinguished Fellow, Earth Science and Climate Change Division, TERI
Having a universal Non-Proliferation Treaty banning the use of fossil fuels globally would do very little to arrest the problem of climate change, writes Mr R R Rashmi, Distinguished Fellow, TERI.
In line with the global initiative for increased use of renewable energy sources for cleaner earth and also the India's ambitious target of generating 450 GW of renewable energy by 2030, there is a dire need to explore newer ways of reducing the use of conventional energy and increased use of renewable energy like the solar even in the silk production and processing activities says Mr H H Ninga Setty and Ms Lasya Gopal, researchers at TERI.
By giving consumers, firms, and individuals the choice of reducing the carbon intensity of their consumption basket, India could further accelerate the decarbonisation of its economy without any claims on the scarce fiscal resources with government, writes Mr Ajay Shankar, Distinguished Fellow, TERI.