Tag: Climate Change
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Banking on Green: How India’s Regulator Is Building a Climate Finance Architecture
[Richa Roy is a Partner, Shreya Garg is a Principal Associate, and Akanksha Oak is an Associate, at Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas. This post is part of the IndiaCorpLaw Blog Symposium on ‘Corporate Law and Climate Change: Indian and Comparative Perspectives’.] In February 2026, the European Central Bank (ECB) imposed periodic penalty payments of €7,551,050 on Crédit Agricole for failing to…
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Banking in the Grey: Missing Regulations and Inadequate Climate Disclosures by Banks in India
[Sugandha Y. is a practising advocate at the Supreme Court of India. This post is part of the IndiaCorpLaw Blog Symposium on ‘Corporate Law and Climate Change: Indian and Comparative Perspectives’.] Like any other corporation, banks are exposed to climate risks. These include the risk of increasing loan defaults, stranded assets, and diminishing value of collaterals. Banks in…
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SEBI’s Regulation of the Carbon Market
[Ashwin Murthy is the Negative Emissions Fellow at Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at the Columbia Climate School, Columbia University, New York. This post is part of the IndiaCorpLaw Blog Symposium on ‘Corporate Law and Climate Change: Indian and Comparative Perspectives’.] The climate crisis necessitates immediate action. The IPCC has made it clear that addressing climate change…
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Climate Change Stewardship in Indian Controlled Companies: Promises and Perils
[Anik Bhaduri is the Commonwealth Scholar and PhD Candidate at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore and Rudresh Mandal is a Principal Associate (Corporate & Securities) at Fox & Mandal, New Delhi. This post is part of the IndiaCorpLaw Blog Symposium on ‘Corporate Law and Climate Change: Indian and Comparative Perspectives’.] Over the last decade, securities regulators…
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Sustainable Investment Management as a Route to Addressing Climate Change Issues within Corporate Law – An Indian Perspective
[Akshaya Kamalnath is Associate Professor at ANU Law School. This post is part of the IndiaCorpLaw Blog Symposium on ‘Corporate Law and Climate Change: Indian and Comparative Perspectives’.] Climate change is one of today’s biggest problems (alongside tech disruptions and inequality). As significant actors in society, corporations too must deal with these big problems and hence corporate law and…
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Domesticating India’s International Climate Law Obligation to Regulate the Conduct of its Private Actors through the Companies Act, 2013
[Hemavathi Shekhar is the Founder and Director, Enact Earth Foundation and Gunjan Soni is an Assistant Professor, School of Law, Mahindra University and Co-Lead, Indian Front, World’s Youth for Climate Justice. This post is part of the IndiaCorpLaw Blog Symposium on ‘Corporate Law and Climate Change: Indian and Comparative Perspectives’.] On 23 July 2025, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivered a landmark advisory…
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International Climate Obligations and India’s Public Sector Undertakings
[Arjuna Dibley is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore. This post is part of the IndiaCorpLaw Blog Symposium on ‘Corporate Law and Climate Change: Indian and Comparative Perspectives’.] International climate change law is in the midst of a ‘corporate accountability turn’. For years, scholars, policymakers, and advocates concentrated on how treaty law…
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From Paris to the Boardroom: Can Voluntary Corporate Climate Governance Deliver India’s NDCs?
[Raushan Tara Jaswal is an Assistant Professor and PhD Candidate, Jindal Global Law School, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonepat, Haryana and Post-Doctoral Researcher, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany. This post is part of the IndiaCorpLaw Blog Symposium on ‘Corporate Law and Climate Change: Indian and Comparative Perspectives’.] The highly contentious adoption of the Paris Agreement has been a…