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The Green Economy team at The Council is building an alternative development paradigm for India that seamlessly combines the twin goals of economic growth and climate action. Our goal is to foster an economy that creates jobs, adds value, and attracts investments without being extractive or damaging to the environment, driven instead by a focus on regenerative, circular, and decentralised economic activities.

CEEW’s approach to building a holistic green economy cuts across crucial pillars, integrating the energy transition, the circular economy, and the bio-economy alongside nature-based solutions. To translate India’s green economy potential into tangible reality, the team actively engages with diverse spheres of influence across the ecosystem. By convening industry leaders, investors, start-ups, philanthropists, R&D innovators, academia, the media, and policymakers, we ensure a collaborative approach to sustainable development.

To steer this vision, we have established a Green Economy Council comprising eminent personalities to advise on strategic interventions, provide thought leadership, and champion sustainable growth at the highest levels. Furthermore, a dedicated Green Economy Accelerator has been set up to solve ecosystem-level problems and unlock bottlenecks within specific green value chains, ensuring that our proposed interventions are both practical and scalable.

India’s Green Economy Potential by 2047:

  • 48 

    million Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) jobs
  • USD 1.1 trillion

    in annual market value
  • USD 4.1 trillion

    total investment opportunity
  • As India moves beyond a USD 3 trillion economy, we cannot follow the development models of the West. Just as digital public infrastructure enabled India to leapfrog technologically, we must now pole-vault into a green economy. A Viksit Bharat built on circular and resource-efficient value chains can define a new development pathway and set a global benchmark for green growth.

    Shri Amitabh Kant

    Green Economy Council Chair,

    former G20 Sherpa, former CEO, NITI Aayog

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