Green business

The latest monthly figures, achieved against a backdrop of disaster recovery, reinforce confidence in the export model.

The shift also aligns with Vietnam’s broader ambition to expand high-quality, low-emission rice production.

Experts at UNEP say that the Emissions Gap Report 2026 does not abandon the 1.5°C goal. Instead it reframes the challenge: minimise the height and length of the overshoot and chart a credible return path.

As India targets scientific closure of around 147 mines in the near term while maintaining energy security, tools such as SUVIKALP will determine whether mined-out landscapes become liabilities or assets.

ASEAN foreign ministers are expected to discuss the transboundary haze at an upcoming meeting. The episode highlights longstanding regional tensions over the annual haze, which has strained diplomatic relations in previous severe seasons such as 2015.

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.

The plan underscores both the technical feasibility of continuous industrial monitoring at scale and the practical difficulties of extending such systems to thousands of smaller enterprises.

Chouhan said expanding market access in this way can deliver better returns to farmers while advancing India’s goal of emerging as a major global food basket.