Climate and Sustainability Initiative (CSI) stands as a new-age organisation committed to the pivotal task of decarbonising the economies of Asia and Africa.
#CSIEngagements CSI will be participating in The Future of Transport & Energy Summit at #Earthfest2026 during London Climate Action Week @london_climate. Our Engagement Lead, Archit Fursule, will be joining conversations on decarbonising transport and energy systems at scale. ���
We look forward to contributing to CSI’s perspectives alongside policymakers, researchers, industry leaders, and innovators from across the global climate ecosystem.
📍 London | 24–25 June 2026
India's critical minerals strategy cannot stop at access. It must also focus on building domestic processing capabilities and capturing more value across the supply chain.
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#CSIInsights China controls 91% of global rare-earth refining capacity. India is 100% import dependent for lithium, cobalt, and nickel.
Yet these are the minerals powering the clean energy transition.
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Another challenge:
Most global engagement focuses on securing raw materials. But the real value lies further down the supply chain in refining, processing, and manufacturing.
#CSIPolicyBrief | 33% of India’s microfinance portfolio is concentrated in eastern states- regions that are also among the most climate-vulnerable. This overlap creates what CSI identifies as a compounded risk hotspot, where high exposure meets high vulnerability.
@IEEFA_AsiaPac As global competition for critical minerals intensifies, project de-risking and execution capacity will become critical to India’s energy transition and energy security ambitions.
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India imports 100% of its lithium, cobalt, and nickel requirements for clean energy technologies.
But the bigger challenge may not just be access to minerals.
It is access to capital.
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@IEEFA_AsiaPac The analysis maps financing gaps across the supply chain from exploration and mining to refining, recycling, and manufacturing.
The key takeaway:
Policy intent must be matched by commercially viable investment ecosystems.
#CSIPolicyBrief | What happens when a failed monsoon becomes a missed repayment?
For millions of low-income borrowers in India, climate shocks are no longer occasional; they are increasingly shaping livelihoods and credit outcomes.
CSI’s latest issue brief, Micro Loans, Macro Shocks: How Climate Risk is Reshaping India’s Microfinance Industry, examines how this link between climate and microfinance is evolving and what it means for the sector.