EU’s aggressive environmental regulations biggest hurdles of FTA talks with India: GTRI

by | Mar 9, 2025 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Policy, Regulation, Risk Management

“The EU is urging India to adopt stronger privacy regulations aligned with GDPR, but India sees this as an unnecessary burden on its digital economy. India has just enacted its Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, which it argues should be sufficient,...

Financial, capacity constraints of EU’s carbon border policy may disrupt India’s steel sector: Study

by | Feb 23, 2025 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Data, Eco/Invest/Demography, Risk Management, Technology

Being implemented since October 2023, the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) aims to apply carbon content-based charges on imports of certain emission-intensive products such as steel from countries with less stringent emission regulations, including India New...

ESG Backlash: Investors with 6 trillion euros warn EU not to weaken green rules

by | Feb 7, 2025 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Policy, Regulation, Risk Management

The warning coincides with mounting pressure from Germany and France, the European Union’s two largest economies, to scale back planned ESG regulations on concerns the requirements are preventing companies in the bloc from competing freely with their peers in the US...