Climate Corps® Training in India: Building Your Path to Climate Impact
Why Training Matters
Addressing the climate crisis requires not just ambition but skilled professionals who can turn goals into action. The Climate Corps training in India equips fellows with the foundational knowledge, practical tools, and strategic frameworks they need to accelerate climate action from day one.
Through a rigorous, hands-on learning experience, fellows build expertise in key areas such as climate risk assessment, sustainable finance, supply chain sustainability, and climate disclosures—empowering them to drive impact within diverse organizational contexts.
Whether it's helping companies meet net-zero targets, navigating evolving ESG standards, or identifying low-carbon opportunities, the training ensures fellows are ready to lead with credibility, competence, and confidence.
Training Overview
What Fellows Learn
The fellows learn technical skills and hone their soft skills through a rigorous 60+ hours of training.
Training Focus Topics
- Climate Risk Assessment: Spotting physical & transition risks, quantifying financial exposure, aligning with reporting norms
- Climate Finance & Carbon Markets: Green bonds, credit market design, Additionality, ICVCM standards, etc.
- Supply Chain Sustainability: Engaging suppliers, measuring Scope 3 emissions, material circularity
- Reporting and Disclosures: BRSR, GRI, SASB, ESG ratings, tech-enabled transparency
Training Focus Sectors
- Freight and Logisitics: Reducing Scope 3 emissions, engaging suppliers on sustainability initiatives, zero-emission medium and heavy-duty vehicle fleets
- Agriculture/Food Systems: Incorporating climate smart practices, measuring and reducing emissions across the agricultural and food value chains
- Manufacturing: Reducing emissions, incorporating material circularity to manufacturing processes, enabling efficient industrial operations
- Sustainable Finance: Climate risk assessment, sustainable financing, climate-related policy and disclosures, investing in net-zero transition
Training Phases
Asynchronous training
Self-paced learning to build your foundational understanding before diving deeper into topics
Level up training
Live training, with a focus on both Understanding and Practising concepts, to equip you with technical knowledge and hands-on experience for your fellowship projects & beyond
Continued learning
Live training to expand on the experiential learnings and emerging questions as you work on your fellowship projects
Training Resources Anyone Can Access
The Climate Corps Training in India is now open to all, whether you are a student or a working professional passionate about climate action and sustainability. To register for access to our training sessions, please visit the Ashoka–Environmental Defense Fund Climate Corps.
2025: List of sessions
- Clean Transition of Freight and Logistics Sector
- Climate Finance & Carbon Markets
- Climate Risk Assessment
- Embedding Sustainability in Supply Chains
- Government-Led Climate Action - Insights, Policies, and Sectoral Contributions
- Green Manufacturing
- Nature-based Solutions
- Operational decarbonization and RE integration
- Reporting and Disclosures
- Sustainable Agriculture and Food
- First principles thinking for climate solutions
- An Indian pathway to shared sustainable prosperity
2024: List of sessions
- Strategic Thinking for Climate Change
- Reporting, Frameworks and Digital tools for Climate Change and Sustainability
- Operational Decarbonization and Renewable Energy Integration
- Internal Carbon Pricing to Manage Climate Risk
- Industrial Efficiency – Manufacturing
- Clean Transition of Freight and Logistics Sector
- Environmental Due Diligence
- Value Chain Emission Inventorization and Mitigation Strategies
- National-level Climate Action Plans
- Carbon Markets
- Climate Smart Agriculture
- Communicating Climate Change for Effective Climate Action