Summit Agenda

India's newly communicated NDC 3.0 (2031–2035) raises the non-fossil capacity target to 60% and deepens the emissions-intensity goal to 47% by 2035, what this means for the scale and sequencing of capital required across clean energy, green manufacturing, resilient infrastructure and nature-based solutions.

How fiscal policy, production-linked incentives and institutional participation can crowd in private capital fast enough to match the raised ambition.

Positioning India as both a laboratory for climate innovation and a magnet for global capital, at a moment when several developed markets are recalibrating their own climate commitments.

COP31 in Antalya (9–20 November 2026) will conclude just days before the Summit, providing a timely assessment of how global climate-finance commitments are translating into bankable projects, scalable blended-finance platforms and credible private-capital deployment opportunities across emerging markets.

What the Government of India's own regulatory, fiscal and diplomatic blueprint for crowding in this capital looks like from the inside.

Where India can move from rule-taker to rule-shaper in the next cycle of global climate finance architecture.

Comparing deployment dynamics, risk appetites, and allocation frameworks across the US, Europe, and India, highlighting how international capital structures climate portfolios across developed and emerging geographies.

What international capital now expects before committing at scale: governance, verifiable impact data, exit pathways and currency hedging, as climate strategies are held to the same return bar as sector-agnostic funds.

The shift from "allocation anxiety" to "deployment confidence" across the region.

Meeting India's raised NDC 3.0 non-fossil target requires far more than capacity addition; it requires a robust grid, advanced storage stack and transmission network able to absorb and balance variable power at scale.

Innovative financing models, green bonds, InvITs and blended structures for grid modernisation, energy storage and system flexibility, and what continues to slow bid-to-construction timelines.

Unveiling of the Summit's flagship climate-capital report followed by a walk-through of key findings.

The pivotal role of India's own institutional capital, pension funds, insurance companies, NPS-linked pools and family offices, in building a long-term, resilient climate funding base that does not depend solely on offshore sentiment.

What product design, ratings comfort and regulatory clearance would bring meaningfully more of this capital off the side-lines and into climate-labelled vehicles.

The expanding role of India's International Financial Services Centre in channelling foreign-currency sustainability bonds, fund structures and global institutional capital into domestic climate vehicles.

What further reforms, on fund domiciliation, custody and cross-border structuring, would let GIFT City compete more directly with established offshore hubs for climate-fund formation.

Five climate and sustainability start-ups pitch back-to-back to the full plenary, spanning clean energy, mobility, circularity, water and waste, agri-tech and frontier climate-tech.

Hard-to-abate industry accounts for the largest single block of India’s industrial emissions and a thin supply of investable transition capital, where the bankable projects actually are today across green steel, alternative cement chemistries, low-carbon aluminium, process-heat electrification and green fuels for shipping.

MSME decarbonisation as the hardest segment of all: cluster-level financing, supply-chain-led transition mandates from large corporates, and what it would take for banks and NBFCs to underwrite it at volume.

Where concessional, philanthropic and commercial capital should be layered—and where it should not—as more of India’s climate opportunity set matures into commercially investable territory.

The growing monetization and integrity of carbon credits as a complementary revenue stack and catalytic tool to improve project bankability and risk-return profiles.

Catalytic structures, guarantees and risk-sharing models built to move technologies from proof-of-concept to proof-of-value, particularly in hard-to-abate sectors.

What a year of RBI, SEBI, IFSCA and Ministry of Finance taxonomy work has actually unlocked for fund managers structuring senior-junior and first-loss vehicles.

Advanced materials, energy storage, carbon capture, synthetic biology and AI-driven climate modelling, and the patient capital, talent pipelines and testbed infrastructure needed to commercialise them.

Crossing the “valley of death” between lab-stage innovation and bankable scale, and what it will take for India to become a net exporter of climate-tech to the rest of the Global South.

Adaptation and resilience remain the most chronically under-funded pillar of global climate finance even after COP30’s pledge to triple adaptation finance by 2035, what commercial, rather than purely concessional, frameworks can do to close that gap.

Climate-smart agriculture as a parallel front line: with agriculture contributing close to a fifth of India’s GHG emissions and smallholders most exposed to climate shocks, where precision farming, nature-based solutions and traceability platforms can attract investable rather than only donor capital.

A forward-looking conversation tying policy, capital and technology into a single investment thesis for India’s climate transition through 2030 and toward the 2070 net-zero milestone.

Closing remarks and a look ahead to the next edition.