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What does it take to make restoring nature economically viable for the people who depend on the land?

In this episode of Amplify, Sanchi Singh, Founder & Host of Amplify, sits down with Arti Dhar, Co-founder & Director of Farmers for Forests, to explore the intersection of farmers, forests, climate finance and ecosystem restoration.

The conversation looks at why agroforestry can offer an alternative to conventional monocropping, and why the environmental case alone is not enough. For restoration to work at scale, it also needs to make economic sense for smallholder farmers.

Arti explains how Farmers for Forests approaches this challenge, from building trust with farming communities and creating financial incentives for tree survival to using blended finance to help fund restoration projects.

The episode also breaks down carbon credits in simple terms, explores the role of philanthropy, CSR and carbon finance, and addresses some of the questions around measurement, risk and integrity in voluntary carbon markets.

The conversation ultimately comes back to a fundamental question:

If society benefits from farmers restoring trees and improving landscapes, how do we create a financial mechanism that rewards them for doing so?

Watch the full episode to explore:

• • Why farmer economics matter to ecosystem restoration• How agroforestry can support farmer livelihoods
• Why trust and social proof matter when working with farming communities
• How blended finance can support restoration
• How carbon credits work
• The challenges of measuring and pricing nature
• Why a living tree can still be financially undervalued
• What it could take to make restoration a viable rural economy

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Every climate goal comes with a price tag. But how does capital actually flow towards climate action, and why do some solutions attract far more funding than others?

In this episode of Amplify, we are joined by Neha Khanna, Associate Director at Climate Policy Initiative India, a global analysis and advisory organisation working at the intersection of finance, policy and sustainable economic growth.

The conversation explores the money behind India’s climate transition and the decisions that determine where it goes.

We discuss what climate finance actually means and how it relates to green finance, transition finance and sustainable finance.

We look at the scale of financing India needs to meet its 2070 climate targets, the major public and private players shaping capital flows, and why mitigation has historically attracted more funding than adaptation.

We also explore what investors consider when evaluating India as a destination for climate capital, the risks and opportunities involved, and what a better-designed climate finance system could look like going forward.

This is a big-picture conversation about the capital behind climate action and the choices that determine which sectors, solutions and communities it ultimately serves.

Watch the full episode of Amplify with Neha Khanna.

What does it take to power a rapidly growing India while making its energy system more secure, resilient and prepared for the future?In this episode of Amplify, host Sanchi sits down with Aditya Lolla, Deputy CEO at Ember, for a conversation about one of the defining challenges facing India: its energy future.India’s energy system is deeply connected to its economic growth, global fuel markets and the infrastructure that moves electricity across the country. As demand rises, how can India balance energy security, affordability and the transition towards cleaner sources of power?In this conversation, Sanchi and Aditya explore:• Why India remains highly exposed to global energy volatility• The role of fossil fuels and why coal continues to remain in the mix• How India’s rapid economic growth is shaping its energy demand• Why building renewable energy capacity alone is not enough• Why the electricity grid is fundamental to the energy transition• The role of electrification in reducing dependence on fossil fuels• What India’s energy future could look like in a changing global energy landscapeWatch the full conversation to explore the opportunities, challenges and choices shaping India’s energy future.Guest: Aditya Lolla, Deputy CEO, EmberHost: Sanchi, Founder, Amplify PodcastEpisode: Can India build an energy secure future?

What does it take to power a rapidly growing India while making its energy system more secure, resilient and prepared for the future?

In this episode of Amplify, host Sanchi sits down with Aditya Lolla, Deputy CEO at Ember, for a conversation about one of the defining challenges facing India: its energy future.India’s energy system is deeply connected to its economic growth, global fuel markets and the infrastructure that moves electricity across the country. As demand rises, how can India balance energy security, affordability and the transition towards cleaner sources of power?

In this conversation, Sanchi and Aditya explore:

• Why India remains highly exposed to global energy volatility

• The role of fossil fuels and why coal continues to remain in the mix

• How India’s rapid economic growth is shaping its energy demand

• Why building renewable energy capacity alone is not enough

• Why the electricity grid is fundamental to the energy transition

• The role of electrification in reducing dependence on fossil fuels

• What India’s energy future could look like in a changing global energy landscape.

Watch the full conversation to explore the opportunities, challenges and choices shaping India’s energy future.

Guest: Aditya Lolla, Deputy CEO, Ember

Host: Sanchi, Founder and Host, Amplify Podcast

Episode: Can India build an energy secure future?

What if waste is not the end of a product’s life, but the beginning of something valuable?

In Season 5, Episode 1 of Amplify, Sanchi Singh sits down with Anish Malpani, Founder of Without, for a conversation around one central question: Can we create value out of waste?

Anish shares his journey from working in finance in New York to building a company focused on solving one of the hardest problems in waste management. The conversation explores why materials like multi-layer packaging are so difficult to recycle, why less than 1% of chip packets are recycled globally, and what needs to change if we want sustainability to work at scale.

But this episode is about more than recycling.

It is about rethinking the systems around waste, creating economic value from materials we currently discard, and building solutions where doing the sustainable thing becomes the easier choice.

Can waste become valuable enough that people actually want to collect it?

Watch Season 5, Episode 1 of Amplify with Anish Malpani, Founder of Without.

Topic: Can we create value out of waste?

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The final episode for this season features mental health advocate and climate justice activist Tori Tsui. We talk about eco-anxiety, climate grief, climate doomism in news cycles and how that affects both our wellbeing and activism. We unpack the role of social media and celebrity culture in this and discuss how mental health issues can be a double-edged sword that is used to vilify and dismiss the lived experiences of BIPOC communities. 

In this episode I am in conversation with Nishanth Chopra, founder of Oshadi a seed-to-stitch supply chain initiative, based around a regenerative cotton farm in a village in Tamil Nadu. Established as a contemporary womenswear label in 2015, over the years the project has evolved into an artisan collective and textile supplier. now housing an entire seed-to-sew supply chain in which fibres are farmed, spun, naturally dyed, woven and sewn all within a ten-kilometre radius. 

I am in conversation with Dr. Theanne Schiros, an Associate Professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology and cofounder of Werewool, a biotech company creating biodegradable textile fibres. We talk about how plastic became such a ubiquitous force in our daily lives and the problem of waste colonialism.