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India Expands Industrial Decarbonisation Strategy
Coverage from SolarQuarter, India's 2026 Budget: how well does the country balance its ..., and others
India’s FY2027 Union Budget shifts climate policy toward industrial decarbonisation, domestic clean-energy manufacturing and more secure supplies of critical minerals and energy technologies.
A major new CCUS allocation places heavy industry at the centre of the strategy, while support for solar, batteries, nuclear power and hydrogen is intended to strengthen industrial competitiveness and energy security. The budget also exposes persistent implementation risks and provides less explicit support for climate adaptation, disaster preparedness, air pollution control and farmer resilience.
The current version reframes the budget as a broader clean-energy industrial strategy, adding explicit support for solar, batteries, nuclear technologies and hydrogen alongside CCUS. It also shifts the emphasis toward execution risk and critical-mineral supply chains, while still treating adaptation and resilience as underweighted.
The story now centers more explicitly on a large, formal CCUS push as a core industrial-policy tool, not just an emerging add-on to decarbonisation. It also adds clearer evidence of implementation constraints and reveals that support for adaptation and resilience remains comparatively weak.