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Executive Summary India has crossed a structural threshold: clean energy is no longer a climate choice; it is now economic statecraft. Handled strategically, it can halve economy-wide energy costs and halve fossil-fuel imports by mid-century, converting over US$200 billion per year currently spent on fuel imports into domestic capital formation and infrastructure investment. This would deliver a decisive boost to industrial competitiveness, energy security, and trade...

The era of stagnant growth in electricity demand in the Global North is forecast to end with the emergence of new large electricity loads arising from the promotion of domestic manufacturing, growth in electric vehicle adoption, revival of the cryptocurrency industry, and the increase in data centres (DCs) that power the generation and use of artificial intelligence (AI). Among these drivers, the growth in electricity...

Executive Summary The IMEC corridor is one of the most ambitious transcontinental energy partnerships of the 21st century, linking continents, cultures, and markets in a dynamic new framework for shared prosperity.Envisioned as a transcontinental artery of energy trade, IMEC connects regions that together represent 40 percent of the world’s population and 50 percent of global GDP. Secure, reliable and affordable energy flows from IMEC partners are...

The India AI Impact Summit 2026, held in New Delhi from 16 to 20 February, concluded with the adoption of the New Delhi Declaration on AI Impact. Rooted in the civilisational ethos of ‘Sarvajan Hitaya, Sarvajan Sukhaya’ (welfare for all, happiness for all), the declaration articulates a unifying vision: The benefits of AI must be equitably shared across humanity while respecting national sovereignty and promoting...

Introduction  Towards Viksit Bharat  As we cross the quarter-way mark of the present century, India’s journey towards its vision of Viksit Bharat, i.e., of transforming itself into a developed nation by 2047, has begun in earnest. “This is the period in the history of India when the country is going to take a quantum leap,” declared Prime Minister Narendra Modi in January 2025, emphasising how progress on...

Attribution: Nilanjan Ghosh and Ambar Kumar Ghosh, Eds., A Vision of Water Governance for Viksit Bharat@2047: Markets, Institutions, and Imperatives, Observer Research Foundation, March 2026. 1: Introduction Water inherently transcends multiple boundaries. Water governance, therefore, is a complex,[a] “transboundary” challenge. The first source of complexity emanates from “hydrological transboundariness”: rivers, aquifers, and watersheds cut across villages, cities, states, and countries, linking surface water and groundwater systems. In...