Intern
WRI India
New Delhi, Delhi, IndiaFresher1h agovia LinkedIn
This job at a glance
- Who can apply
- Freshers and up to 1 year
- Must know
- Data visualizationExcelMicrosoft Office
- Nice to have
- Data analysisPythonRPower BI
- Work
- On-site in New Delhi · internship
- Pay
- Not stated by the employer.
- Skill demand
- Excel23%Microsoft Office14%Data analysis9%Data visualization7%of 99 similar fresher jobs posted in India this week
- Listed
- 4 Nov 2026 · still open
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About the Role
The Food, Land and Water Program at WRI India is seeking a Research Intern to support its ongoing work on the role of carbon finance in enabling the transition towards more sustainable and climate-resilient agricultural systems in India. The work will focus on understanding the evolving agricultural carbon market landscape, particularly the opportunities and challenges associated with generating carbon credits through the adoption of sustainable agricultural practices, with a specific focus on rice-based systems.
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct landscape assessments of agricultural carbon projects across selected carbon registries, focusing on eligible activities and sustainable agricultural practices and extract specific information from their project documentation using a predefined data collection framework.
- Conduct a comparative assessment of rice emission-reduction methodologies across selected carbon registries.
- Analyze the extracted data to identify trends in project scale, geographic distribution, implementation approaches, GHG mitigation potential, carbon credit issuance and the adoption of different agricultural practices.
- Prepare a structured project database, a comparative methodology matrix, data visualizations and a concise analytical note summarizing key findings.
- Support in policy review to identify policies, schemes and institutional support for promoting sustainable rice cultivation practices.
Requirements & Tech Stack
- Postgraduate degree in Environmental Sciences, Agriculture, Climate Change, Agricultural Economics or related disciplines.
- Strong desk research and data analysis skills.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications - Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
- General awareness of carbon markets and carbon crediting mechanisms, along with key issues in Indian agriculture.
- Ability to present complex information in a clear and concise manner.
- Good interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently as well as collaboratively in a team.
Desirable Skills
- Exposure to data analysis or visualization tools such as R, Python or Power BI.
- Ability to think critically and creatively.
Stipend: INR 25000/ month
Duration: 3 months (extendable upto 4 months)