Chetna Hareesh Kumar works on projects related to climate and development. Her expertise includes clean energy policy topics, notably renewable energy and energy efficiency financing for emerging economies. Before joining NewClimate, she worked as a researcher and analyst with the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and REN21 Secretariat in Paris, as well as the Council on Energy, Environment, and Water (CEEW) in New Delhi. She holds a Master's in International Economic Policy (with specialisations in Energy and Research Methods) from Sciences Po Paris and a B.A. (Hons) in Economics from Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi.

Assessing safeguards for hydrogen sustainability in the H2Global mechanism
Publication date 11 Feb 2025

International trade flows of green hydrogen are nascent and face significant challenges in scaling up. Innovative financial instruments...

Assessing safeguards for hydrogen sustainability in Germany’s carbon contracts for difference
Publication date 11 Feb 2025

The Federal Republic of Germany has identified hydrogen as a key lever for national decarbonisation and industrial transformation. In...

Nachhaltigkeit von Wasserstoff im H2Global-Mechanismus
Publication date 11 Feb 2025

Der internationale Handel mit grünem Wasserstoff befindet sich noch im Anfangsstadium und steht vor großen Herausforderungen, wenn er...

Stellen die Klimaschutzverträge die Nachhaltigkeit von Wasserstoff sicher?
Publication date 11 Feb 2025

Die Bundesrepublik Deutschland hat Wasserstoff als einen wichtigen Hebel für die nationale Dekarbonisierung und die industrielle...

Electricity Market Design in Southeast Asia
Publication date 28 Oct 2024

Power systems' arrangements - their regulation, markets, institutional frameworks and financial structures - were originally designed...

Delivering the promise of Paris: Roadmap to a safer climate

In the 2015 Paris Agreement, countries agreed to collectively limit the average global temperature increase by the end of the century...

Multilateral Development Banks and the Paris Agreement

NewClimate Institute, together with  Germanwatch, WRI and E3G, provides inputs to multilateral development banks in supporting the...

Virtual Launch: The Role of Multilateral Development Banks in Sustainable Green Hydrogen Development
Venue Online
Date 16 May 2024
Start time 02:00 pm

On 16 May we hosted a launch webinar and panel discussion for our report on The Role of Multilateral Development Banks in Sustainable...

Unpacking Germany’s hydrogen import strategy: 3 considerations for Global South partners
Publication date 07 Aug 2024

Germany has increasingly focused on green hydrogen, and rightly so, as it is vital to decarbonising hard-to-abate sectors like heavy...

Press release - CCPI 2024: Despite boom in renewables: World no closer to Paris climate goals until fossil fuels decline drastically
Publication date 08 Dec 2023

For the 19th time in a row, Germanwatch, NewClimate Institute, and CAN International publish the Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI...

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