A reflection from inside FICCI’s TANENERGY Summit 2025 on how India is thinking about energy beyond silos.
From nuclear and renewables to AI, grids, and geopolitics, the conversations pointed to systems, not slogans.
And they made one thing clear: Tamil Nadu is becoming central to India’s energy future.
At The Hindu Sustainability Summit 2025, one message stood out: the future isn’t fossil-free, it’s efficiency-first. From green refineries to tertiary water reuse, Tamil Nadu is quietly building India’s blueprint for circular progress.
Leadership is not about polished, inauthentic stories.
It’s about lived truths — mistakes, lessons, resilience.
Stories shape generations, and systems sustain them.
That’s the work: telling what’s real, and building what lasts.
India is the third-largest battery importer — and by 2030, will be sitting atop 2 million tonnes of waste.
At IIT Madras Research Park, a closed-door roundtable asked: will this be a crisis, or a $50B opportunity?
From Battery Passports to second-life reuse, stakeholders confronted the bottlenecks head-on.
This moment could mark the turning point for India’s EV battery circular economy.
AndPurpose Forum is coming to Bengaluru this July 24 — uniting 150+ leaders across climate tech, CSR, ESG, policy, and impact.
Part of a national series leading to the flagship AndPurpose Summit in New Delhi, this invite-only gathering sparks bold, purpose-led collaboration.
Co-hosted with ecoHQ as Network Partner, the Forum builds on Delhi’s momentum to accelerate climate action where it’s needed most.
At CII-SR’s ESG & Climate Action Summit 2025, the frameworks were polished — but the friction showed.
From circularity blind spots to token DEI, the real gaps are still structural.
This is a ground-level unpacking of what India’s ESG evolution looks like — beyond the slide decks.
A climate party that flowed from panels to play — how a night of policy, and raw conversations mapped our city’s climate fault lines. The second edition of Climate Party zoomed into Chennai’s most painful, persistent wound: Water.
The event themed “Reclaiming Water: Chennai’s Woes & Solutions” was a grounded, needed conversation about the city’s city’s sanitation systems, water insecurity, and the need for decentralised, circular approaches.
On World Environment Day 2025, we launched something more than a summit — we launched momentum.
CircularNXT 2025 was a 225-minute virtual global convening that brought together experts, practitioners, policymakers, and ecosystem enablers to reimagine circularity through the lenses of technology, regulation, inclusion, education, and systems change.
A quiet climate buildout from the South — where founders engineer change before the headlines arrive.I attended the Climate Drinks meetup in Chennai yesterday, hosted by Pratap Raju of Climate Collective. No panels. No pitches. Just real conversations with founders, funders, and ecosystem builders shaping India’s climate future from the grassroots up.
✨ Beyond Panels and PowerPoints: What Made The Climate Party in Chennai Truly Special!
Last evening, Chennai played host to something refreshingly different — The Climate Party®!