Sustainability. Books. Technology. Reflections.
Let me start with a summary of some headlines and marquee events from the past couple of years that you have likely encountered if you follow the carbon market. If you read these stories, you will have noticed how casually the terms carbon market and carbon credit move across them, as if they referred to […]
Co-authored this piece on Next Billion to unpack climate finance ecosystem in Africa and its implications on financing climate action.. read it here.
I love reading and I love exploring bookshops. Word on the Water, a barge bookshop on Regent’s Canal, is quirky and cute. The shelves are short and the selection is opinionated. Not a place to find the latest bestseller or the instagram viral book that book-influencers are promoting .. you are not meant to find […]
Why do we even need to visit historical concentration camps or genocide memorials?Why do we visit places that hold so much pain?Because they serve as a visceral reminder of the nadir of our own humanity. Because they force you to make a silent promise to never look away again. Dachau Concentration Camp, Munich
KOKO Networks is a company I have cited many times as an example of what clean cooking success looks like. Founded in Kenya in 2013, KOKO built a bioethanol cooking solution and made it accessible at subsidised prices: stoves at KES 1,500 against a market price of over KES 10,000, and ethanol at KES 100 per litre against KES 200. They reached more than 1.5 million households by leveraging carbon…
As usual, my last year’s reading was split between deliberate explorations and guilty pleasures. The thrillers, murder mysteries, and crime fiction were my airport reading and guilty pleasures, feeding the inner child who grew up on comics and superhero books. But many others were deliberate choices, and those are worthy of reflection. The deliberate selections […]
Last Friday, I moderated the opening plenary of the Sankalp Bharat 2025 to explore the next phase of transformation of Indian agriculture. We didn’t just discuss problems but mapped the big shifts required for Indian agriculture over the next decade. Here are four things we all agreed we must work towards: Tech led transformation: Leveraging AI and digital infrastructure is critical to…
The Economics of Restoration is complicated. And, the context specific nature of interventions make it even more difficult to have commercial capital flow in these interventions for scale. But restoration of our land and food system is critical and cannot be de-prioritized just because our existing frameworks of pricing and financing are unable to do […]
Our forests are essential for maintaining Earth’s climate balance, as they absorb around 16 billion metric tonnes of CO₂ annually (gross removals) and store over 860 billion metric tonnes of carbon. They also provide crucial ecosystem services, supporting the water, air, and food systems on which life depends. Yet these services are highly undervalued in […]
Indian AgTech have huge potential to not only transform Indian agriculture but can also make India a leader in solving the global agriculture and food security challenge. An article that I wrote for Business India.. https://businessindia.co/magazine/guest-column/from-food-security-to-global-leadership