During 2024, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank will review its so-called Accountability Framework. In reality, this is a misnomer, as the Framework serves to actively undermine accountability.
Centre for Financial Accountability (CFA) is a non-profit organisation based in New Delhi. CFA engages in critical analysis, monitoring and critiquing the role of financial institutions – national and international, and their impact on...
Chennai, January 19, 2024: “The issue of energy and climate havoc are very complex and have been approached in a reductive way. That’s why we have not moved towards real solutions,” noted environmentalist and...
The third attempt at a plastic treaty bombed. Held in Nairobi and attempted by reps from all nations couldn’t reach a consensus, thanks to the petrochem companies. They flew in umpteen lobbyists and even...
The India Social Forum was held in Patna from 2nd December to 4th December, was a confluence of social movements and civil society organizations from across India.
As negotiations and discussions build up around the Fossil Fuels phase-out at the COP28 in Dubai, back home, for the second year in a row, no coal power plant has received project finance lending...
The Centre for Financial Accountability (CFA), has been engaged in critically analyzing the plastics lifespan from petrochemical manufacturing, production and consumption of plastics to its disposal using chemical recycling including incineration. In this context,...
The Global Plastics Treaty, which aims to address plastic pollution across its full lifecycle has the potential to do so through production reduction, removal of non-essential plastics and corporate accountability. However, the negotiations which...
India emitted 2.412 gigatons of CO2 in 2020 contributing to 6.71% of total global emissions in the same year. It is the 3rd largest carbon emitter after China and the USA. Key sectors that...
Real earnings have increased only for casual work, economists said at a conference titled ‘Measuring Recovery’. Several economists have termed the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy’s (CMIE) claim that the labour market witnessed an...
“For years the people of Teesta valley had been campaigning against the dam, we repeatedly warned them about the possible disaster, but we were targeted and ignored. And now the dam has been washed...
New Delhi: At a time when the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy’s report claims an upward trend in employment in India’s labour market with 15 million people entering the workforce, economists exposed that claim...
New Delhi: “The flow of 100 billion dollars for climate finance from developed to developing countries for mitigation and adaptation of climate impacts are neither enough to meet the needs of addressing the climate...