Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM)

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Energy, Power & CleanTech Special Report (Sept 27, 2026)

The Green Hydrogen Gamble: Can India Build a Solar-to-Ammonia Export Hub Along its Western Seaboard?

India’s ₹19,744 crore National Green Hydrogen Mission is being sold as a strategic industrial reset: turn abundant solar power into green hydrogen, convert it into exportable ammonia, and anchor a new clean-fuel corridor along the western seaboard. The pitch is compelling because it links energy security, manufacturing, and port-led growth. But the economics remain unforgiving. Electrolyzer costs, round-the-clock renewable supply, desalination needs, and shipping logistics must all align before India can compete with subsidized US projects or Europe’s carbon-priced import market. The real test is whether Gujarat and Odisha can move from announcements to bankable infrastructure. Adani and Reliance are positioning port-adjacent ammonia plants near deep-water terminals, but the sector still depends on policy certainty, transmission buildout, water access, and long-term offtake contracts. India may have the scale to become a major exporter, yet the race is not just about gigawatts. It is about whether the country can deliver molecules at a cost global buyers will pay, after subsidies, tariffs, and carbon rules are fully counted.

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National Governance & Policy1h ago

India and 17 Others Move to Join Russia's WTO Fight Against EU Carbon Border Tax

India and 17 other countries have reserved their rights to join Russia's dispute against the European Union's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism at the World Trade Organization, underscoring widening global unease over the bloc's climate-linked trade regime. The move comes as New Delhi separately works with Brussels to prepare domestic industry for CBAM compliance, even as it negotiates a broader trade deal with the EU.

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Fashion & Luxury2026-09-06T09:30:00.000Z

LVMH Names Carbon-Negative Mycelium Textiles as Innovation Prize Winner in Paris

LVMH has awarded its annual innovation prize to a textile platform developing carbon-negative mycelium leather, underscoring the luxury group's accelerating investment in next-generation materials. Announced in Paris, the win signals a broader industry shift from incremental sustainability claims toward scalable, science-led alternatives with real commercial potential.

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Clean Energy & Climate TransitionSpecial Report (Sept 27, 2026)

The Small Modular Nuclear Reactor (SMR) Renaissance: Fact vs. Regulatory Reality in Clean Decarbonization

Small modular reactors have become the nuclear industry’s most persuasive answer to the intermittency problem in a decarbonizing grid: factory-built, supposedly cheaper, and easier to deploy than gigawatt-scale plants. But the commercial narrative is running ahead of the regulatory and fuel realities. Across the leading Western designs—NuScale, Westinghouse and Rolls-Royce SMR—licensing timelines remain long, first-of-a-kind costs remain unproven, and the supply chain for HALEU fuel is still too thin to support a rapid buildout. The result is a widening gap between policy ambition and industrial capacity. Governments want firm, low-carbon power; utilities want bankable economics; regulators want safety cases that survive scrutiny; and investors want projects that do not repeat the cost overruns of past nuclear waves. In Vienna, where energy security and climate policy are increasingly inseparable, the SMR question is no longer whether the technology can work in principle, but whether it can be deployed at scale before the decarbonization window narrows further.

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Frontier AI & Machine LearningSpecial Report (Sept 27, 2026)

The Energy Wall Facing Frontier Models: Why Big Tech is Buying Nuclear Power Plants for AI Data Centers

The race to build frontier AI models is colliding with a far older constraint than chips or talent: electricity. Microsoft, Amazon and Google are now locking in 20-year nuclear power deals because the next generation of training clusters is pushing data-center demand into the gigawatt class, where grid interconnection queues, transmission bottlenecks and carbon constraints become binding. The result is a new industrial logic: compute is no longer just a software problem, but a power-asset acquisition strategy. That shift is visible in deals tied to Three Mile Island and Talen Energy, where Big Tech is seeking firm, round-the-clock baseload supply to support always-on AI workloads. The thermodynamic reality is unforgiving: as model size, parameter count and training runs scale, so do cooling loads, power density and the cost of downtime. Nuclear is not a perfect answer, but for hyperscalers facing constrained grids and volatile renewables, it is increasingly the only asset class that can match frontier AI’s appetite for reliable megawatts.

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Startups & Venture Capital5h ago

IITM Unicorn Frontier Fund I Secures Rs 450 Crore First Close, Targets Deep-Tech Breakout in India

The IITM Unicorn Frontier Fund I has reached a Rs 450 crore first close and has already deployed nearly Rs 55 crore into four deep-tech startups spanning space, quantum, batteries and carbon capture. Backed by IIT Madras, IIT Madras Research Park and Unicorn India Ventures, the fund is part of a larger Rs 1,000 crore vehicle designed to bridge the gap between laboratory innovation and commercial scale.

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