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News·Jan 22, 2026

Setting the Course: Rajasthan Begins Its Journey Toward a State-wide SO₂ Emissions Trading Scheme

A knowledge exchange workshop that enabled learnings from other states to inform the design and implementation of Rajasthan’s ETS
News·Jan 14, 2026

India’s Pollution Crisis: Can Emission Trading Really Work? Planet People Profit

EPIC Director Michael Greenstone joins Sudipto Dey, Editor – Sustainability & Regulatory Affairs, Outlook Business, for a conversation on clean air, markets, and regulation.
News·Jan 8, 2026

AI-driven weather forecasts for climate adaptation in India

Neelima Vallangi writes in Nature about University of Chicago research that found providing Indian farmers in Telangana with a one-month advance monsoon forecast helped avert losses and improve planting decisions, highlighting the role of long-range forecasts in climate adaptation.

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Research Highlights·Dec 14, 2025

Rural Households Highly Value Clean Water

A new study in rural India shows that doorstep delivery of water is a highly cost-effective way of enabling near universal adoption of clean drinking water.
Podcast episode·Oct 6, 2025

Episode 5: Markets for Pollution

 Editor’s Note: We recently launched the Emissions Market Accelerator (EMA), a groundbreaking initiative that helps governments in the Global South design and deploy market solutions to reduce pollution and foster economic growth. Researchers affiliated with the Emissions Market Accelerator helped...
Research Highlights·Sep 10, 2024

Out of the darkness and into the light? Development effects of rural electrification

Does electricity access bring small villages out of poverty?
Podcast episode·Aug 23, 2024

How did the near-extinction of vultures in India contribute to thousands of additional human deaths?

via The Hindu
Eyal Frank explains how the vulture population in India fell from several million to just a few thousand, the sanitation shock this placed on the country when they were no longer available to dispose of dead cattle and how this...