The second Energy Finance Conference India, organised by IIT Madras (Department of Humanities and Social Sciences) and Centre for Financial Accountability, with Climate Trends as Knowledge Parner, will begin on December 7, 2020 on...
India’s pollution metrics fail to capture the complex reality of environmental degradation. The city is fine, really. Right outside the railway station, beneath the board that says Asansol Junction, an LED panel displays the...
15 years back power sector witnessed a huge expansion. Between 2005 and 2011, thermal projects with 700 GW were given either TOR or EC by the government in around 570 projects, with estimated investments...
U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)тАЩs data says that India has the fifth largest coal reserves in the world. Coal is also India’s primary source of energy. India, in addition to producing coal in excess...
A two-day regional seminar was held in Bilaspur on 30th Nov- 1st Dec 2019 organized by, All India Forum of Forest Movements (AIFFM) ChhattisgarhтАУVidarbha region, Mausam, Beyond Copenhagen Network and Centre for Financial Accountability...
In the last week of September 2019, as part of a team I attended a programme taking place in the village Bhumka in Sidhi District in eastern Madhya Pradesh. Sidhi is a neighbouring district...
Investors are leading the climate change charge towards zero emissions and cleaner fuels while governments lag behind Financial giants are redirecting massive money flows away from fossil fuels as slow movers report losses. But...
August 18, 2019, Chennai: The recently concluded two-day conference on Energy Finance in India at IIT Madras witnessed enthusiastic participation from various regulators, experts, industry leaders, bankers, activists and discussion on issues related to...
Press Release Experts, Policymakers, Activists to Discuss Energy Finance in India Chennai, August 14, 2019:┬аSenior┬аpolicymakers, experts on energy policy, industry leaders, bankers, and activists are meeting to discuss a range of issues related to...
This exclusive report documents the violations caused by the NTPCтАЩs power plants on various fronts over the past decade — forceful land acquisition, environmental damage caused to communities, toxic pollution due to large-scale coal-fired...
Along with the unbridled sanctioning of the flow of foreign funds to the countryтАЩs energy sector in the bid to be a major driving force in the global energy market (which falters often on...
A three-day workshop on тАШEnvironment Social and Development Finance: Dimensions of Sustainable EnergyтАЩ was jointly organised by National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM), Centre for Financial Accountability (CFA), and PAIRVI in Hyderabad, with the...
A group of civil society organisations, which has reviewed, and analysed the 2017 draft of the National Energy Policy (NEP), submitted its comments and suggestions from the financial perspective for improving the draft of...