Multi-year institutional programs translating macroeconomic research into scalable capital instruments and enforceable market regulations.
SCRF bridges the gap between theoretical economic modeling and real-world capital deployment. Our applied policy initiatives are anchored in India's domestic transition and engineered for scalability across the Global South. Each program is designed to resolve specific structural frictions across capital markets, sovereign debt, and industrial policy.
Program 01: Carbon Market Architecture
The Foundation's dedicated workstream for the technical architecture of domestic and cross-border compliance carbon mechanisms. Anchored in the operational rollout of India's Carbon Credit Trading Scheme (CCTS), the initiative delivers empirical models to ensure high-integrity pricing, registry interoperability, and Article 6 alignment.
Program 02: Transition Finance & Capital Mobilisation
A dedicated initiative mobilizing institutional capital and structuring the regulatory guardrails required for long-term macroeconomic decarbonization. We provide technical advisory to central banks and financial regulators on sovereign debt instruments, national transition taxonomies, and prudential climate-risk integration.
Program 03: Industrial Policy & Real Economy
Addressing the capital deficit across hard-to-abate sectors and export-oriented manufacturing clusters. This program designs transition pathways, blended finance de-risking facilities, and carbon-accounting protocols to protect supply chain competitiveness against international trade adjustments.
Program 04: Emerging Market Climate Finance
Reforming global financial architecture to reflect the macroeconomic realities of developing economies. This initiative engages with multilateral development banks (MDBs) and finance ministries across Asia, Africa, and Latin America to advance sovereign debt restructuring, local currency financing, and South-South technical cooperation.
The Policy Lab is the Foundation's formal statutory engagement mechanism, translating empirical economic research into actionable legislative and regulatory architecture. We provide evidence-based analysis to finance ministries, central banks, and parliamentary committees through formal consultation submissions, technical drafting assistance, and closed-door institutional dialogues.
Recent Policy Engagements
Engaging the Bureau of Energy Efficiency on pricing microstructure and baseline methodologies.
Advising the regulator on use-of-proceeds verification and taxonomy alignment.
Submitting empirical frameworks for proportionate supply chain disclosures.
Briefing the Parliamentary Standing Committee on sovereign climate finance architecture.
Advising MoEFCC on macroeconomic alignment of sectoral targets and carbon budget allocations.