Voluntary action

The statement crystallises a simple principle: climate justice is not charity. It is accountability. Communities in Sri Lanka still recovering from Ditwah, Pacific Island nations facing existential sea-level rise, African farmers confronting prolonged droughts and South Asian workers enduring extreme heat are not asking for handouts.

The balance struck in Colombo will be watched as a test case for risk-based implementation of FATF Recommendation 8 across the region.

Balancing genuine efforts to combat illicit finance with the protection of civic space remains a test that international standards – and international observers – will closely watch.

India’s experience offers a transferable lesson: organic waste streams, when systematically collected and processed, can simultaneously advance sanitation, energy access, climate mitigation and rural-urban linkages.

India's next leap in disaster management should not simply be to predict disasters better. It should be to connect knowledge better, strengthen institutions and act earlier.

Channels 2026 does not claim to define the nation’s writing. Instead, it opens another channel for stories that might otherwise remain private.

The initiative, supported by senior members of the Maha Sangha, comes in the wake of a landmark Supreme Court ruling that invalidated a previous pardon granted to the controversial Buddhist monk.

For a small island nation whose health system is already under strain, the fight against HIV has become one of the most pressing public health challenges of the decade.