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Dear readers,
Welcome to the Climate Weekly Digest by the Centre for Science and Environment’s Climate Change programme and Down to Earth.
A key announcement in India’s Union Budget 2026-27 was a five-year Rs 20,000 crore outlay for Carbon Capture, Storage and Utilisation (CCUS) through a dedicated scheme. CSE Industrial Pollution’s Kushagra Goyal explains that the scheme will support CCUS initiatives to aid the decarbonisation of five industrial sectors, namely, power, steel, cement, refineries and chemicals. CCUS refers to technologies that capture carbon dioxide emissions from industrial processes at the source, and either reuse them in industrial applications or store them underground, helping reduce the amount of greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere.
In December 2025, India’s Union Department of Science and Technology released a roadmap aimed at research and development pathways for CCUS technologies. Similarly, the Union Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas has released a draft roadmap for accelerating CCUS development in India’s upstream oil and gas sector. However, India’s experiments with CCUS are currently limited to a few pilot projects, largely financed by public sector companies. Further, concerns around CCUS remain, including high costs, slow deployment and limited operating capacity. The final details of the scheme will determine the future trajectory of CCUS initiatives across the five identified sectors in India.
In the world of trade, on February 3, the US President Donald Trump announced that the US had agreed to cut tariffs on Indian goods to 18 per cent, down from as high as 50 per cent. Down to Earth’s Puja Das reports that the agreement marks a major reset in India-US ties after months of tariff escalation, particularly over India’s energy sourcing. According to US government claims, the reduced tariffs will give Indian exporters a competitive edge in manufacturing and clean energy technologies compared to its neighbours. The US is already India’s most important overseas market for solar exports. However, the agreement is interim, with a longer term ambition to expand bilateral trade from $212 billion in 2025 to $500 billion by 2030. Energy remains a critical pillar of the trade reset, with a reduction in Russian oil imports being a key condition for rolling back tariffs.
Lastly, the latest episode of Carbon Politics was released on Wednesday, January 28. In this episode titled “Did the US kill multilateralism?”, CSE Climate’s Sehr Raheja speaks to Brandon Wu, Director of Policy and Campaigns at ActionAid USA, on the US’s new disruptive foreign policy era under Trump 2.0 and who can lead global climate cooperation now.
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By - Upamanyu Das
Climate Change, CSE
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Heatwaves and lightning should be added to national disaster list, Finance Commission says, 02 February 2026
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Threat of global warming looms large on next winter Olympics despite being at a high-altitude Alpine city: Study, 31 January 2026
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CLIMATE NEWS | SCIENCE| IMPACTS| POLITICS |
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Carbon Politics: A Video Podcast by CSE |
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