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A private sector-oriented Global Green Bank is required to overcome the market gaps that prevent Global North capital from flowing to the best decarbonisation investment opportunities among Global South enterprises. The Global Green Bank should operate as a world-class investment firm, capable of developing innovative financial solutions and investing through externally raised investment fund-of-funds and its own proprietary book. Such a Global G
The GPAI and G20 can play a paramount role in the non-weaponisation of AI and related technologies, and in ensuring that developing countries get equa
India’s clear and consistent push for the Global South’s perceptions and challenges has contributed to a belated but necessary shift in European t
During its G20 presidency, India should engage with governments and policymakers and address the regulatory constraints faced by this sector to keep i
Going forward, the collaboration between developed and developing countries toward achieving SDGs is essential.
The Global South experiences a disproportionate impact of climate change which in turn leads to food insecurity
To take advantage of their favourable demographic transitions over the coming decades, the developing and least developed countries (LDCs) need to add
The continuation of oppressive colonial ideology through the preservation of heritage sites is stifling social change.
COP28 must serve as a unifying forum with a targeted Global South focus agenda and should not continue to be hampered by the burdens of the past
As part of the G20 Presidency, India will drive positive change for the world
The present commitments made by the developed countries to provide climate finance have proved to be insufficient. The G20 needs to find pragmatic sol
The barriers erected by the Global North are intended to facilitate domestic investment in green energy industries but they will curtail the productio
It’s a fact that countries of the Global South, while not supportive of Russia’s war against Ukraine, also blame NATO and the West for its global impact. Europe needs to change its approach.
Today, India is poised at the moment and GDP that China was in in 2007. Does it have the same gumption?
Economic growth has historically been dependent on fossil fuels. Climate change mitigation, therefore, is often an obstacle for developing countries. Although efficiency in the use of energy sources has increased dramatically over the last decades, GHG emissions remain at steep levels. This brief argues that developed countries should increase pressures on the Global North for more robust emission cuts and greater provision of aid related to clim
Combining private sector initiatives and government policies synergistically can lead to gender empowerment
Countries in the Global South are keen on leveraging cyberspace for their economic development, and thus, have a considerable interest in the security
Youth capital can become an essential driving force of sustainable development and climate change movement.
विकास वित्तपुरवठ्याच्या दृष्टिकोनातून 2024 हे वर्ष महत्त�
The Indian general election will go beyond reaffirming the power of democracy; it could make 2024 the year that took democracy home to the people of t
भारतात होणारी आगामी लोकसभा निवडणूक लोकशाहीच्या सामर्थ्
To achieve global carbon neutrality, developed nations needs to look beyond domestic green deals and provide Global South with the capital to go green
The Global South needs to drive the just transition discourse further to make it more inclusive and move from words to deeds.
Energy transition alone cannot anchor the green transition; a more holistic approach needs to be adopted, especially in the Global South
The paradigm that conservation is the anti-thesis to development needs to change; conservation is central to development in the Global South
The great power contestation of the past one year has been characterised by the economic woes of many countries of the Global South, a global leadership vacuum and the resurrection of hard power aided by technological shifts in warfare
There is a need to reform WTO as it fails to represent the interests of the Global South
As the G20 president, India has been striving for a more equitable and inclusive G20 that incorporates the voices from the AU
Financial transfers from Global North are band-aids. What is absent is resource mobilisation to incentivise the South to move away from fossil fuel de
Given the global importance of the Blue Economy, India’s G20 Presidency brings about the unique opportunity to prioritise the BE for the purpose for growth, green economy and social equity.
Adopting holistic approaches to address the interlinkages between health and other gender-sensitive SDG targets is key to achieving equitable and sust
The recent expansion of BRICS places it as a potential voice for the Global South in economic, trade, and investment matters
This brief discusses one of the most crucial challenges to effective global governance for development: bridging the financing gap for the UN Sustainable Development Goals. It considers the role of the G20 in addressing this gap, and outlines a 10-point action plan for the grouping. The aim is to bolster the financing required to achieve the SDGs in the next six and a half years—serving as an update to the Addis Ababa Action Agenda of 2015 in l
Climate change is the single biggest health threat facing humanity, and developing nations of the Global South are expected to be the most vulnerable
As the Covid-19 pandemic began to unfold in February, India’s dependence on Chinese inputs for the production of pharmaceutical products was debated intensely. This special report argues that the narrow discussion has fallen short in capturing India’s crucial role in global health as a provider of health-related goods to many developing countries. The report analyses trade data on over 200 categories of health-related goods, and provides quan
The CBAM is neither based on equity principles nor does it conform to efficiency criteria that will help the cause of just transition
Climate change is impacting data centres that are vital for a country's digital development. It is critical, therefore, for data centre strategies to
