Sustainability Karma Desk
Ashish Khanna of ISA urges countries to turn energy crises into opportunities for accelerating solar transition
SolarFutures 2026: International Solar Alliance Director General Ashish Khanna argued that every global energy crisis should be viewed as an opportunity to accelerate solar deployment through decentralised systems, innovation and long-term investment.
Ashwajit Singh, MD, IPE Global
Ashwajit Singh, Managing Director of IPE Global, outlines his expectations for the Union Budget 2024-25. He emphasizes continued focus on infrastructure, addressing rural stress, boosting manufacturing, job creation, and enhancing education and skills. Singh also highlights the need for encouraging...
Asia poised to lead in tripling renewable power generation capacity by 2030
Asia is most likely to meet and exceed renewable energy goals with Europe’s Green New Deal offering a strong framework for global progress, and Africa's solar potential hindered by policy challenges. In an interview with Sustainability Karma, Erik Solheim, former Executive Director of UNEP throws...
ASPIRE scheme boosts rural entrepreneurship as over 1.16 lakh beneficiaries trained across India
ASPIRE scheme supports rural entrepreneurship, with 109 LBIs approved nationwide and more than 1.16 lakh beneficiaries trained under MSME initiatives
Atmanirbharta 2.0: India’s solar manufacturing ambitions shift from scale to global competitiveness
SolarFutures 2026: As India emerges as one of the world's largest solar markets, industry leaders say the next phase of growth will depend not on deployment alone but on building a fully integrated manufacturing ecosystem. Experts argued that policy certainty, upstream investments, resilient supply...
Automated, paperless distribution centre opens to support digital, green goals
Nestlé India launches digital, paperless DC in Bhiwandi with AI tools and alternate fuel logistics to support efficient, secure, and sustainable operations.
Benefits worth $17 billion per year in flood protection alone can be derived from mangrove: Dr Anjali Acharya of Nature Conservancy
India can draw on global lessons in market finance, carbon credits and integrated planning. In an interview with Sustainability Karma, Dr Anjali Acharya, Managing Director of Nature Conservancy India Solutions, say that they are also developing a geo-lab to map species and suitability in...
Bhupender Yadav advocates circular economy for sustainable growth in automotive sector
Union Minister Bhupender Yadav emphasised the importance of circularity and sustainability in India’s growing automotive sector.
Bhutan-India renewable energy roundtable held to promote collaborative financing solutions
IREDA stands ready to extend support to Bhutan’s renewable energy initiatives within the regulatory framework of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), Government of India
