Statement: The False Promises of Hydropower

A Joint Statement The False Promises of Hydropower: How dams fail to deliver the Paris Climate Agreement and the UN Sustainable Development Goals by Civil Society Organizations on occasion of the 2019 World Hydropower Congress...

अडानी के घाटे को जनता की जेब पर थोपती सरकार

लोकसभा चुनाव के बीच, केद्रिंय विधुत विनियामक आयोग ने अडानी मुद्रां पावर परियोजना की 2000 मेगावाट यूनिट का तय टैरिफ 2.80 रुपए से बढाकर 3.10 रुपए करने का आदेश जारी कर दिया है। इसका...

Read more May 10, 2019 at 3:41 pm Rajesh Kumar

Coal-Ravaged Indian Fishers Take to the Supreme Court

WILD ANIMALS ONCE RAN AMONG the acacia trees outside Navinal, one of many small villages hugging the Gulf of Kutch–an inlet on India’s northwest coast. Gajendra Singh Jadeja remembers them well: Cattle foraged for...

Read more April 26, 2019 at 6:12 pm Sierra Magazine

Over 50 Organisations From The World Ask Japan To Stop Funding Coal

In full-page advertisements in the Financial Times and Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan’s largest daily newspaper, 50 reputed organisations, working on environment and accountability related issues, from across the world have appealed to Shinzo Abe to...

Read more April 25, 2019 at 2:02 pm Ankit Agrawal

The World Bank’s Legacy of Environmental Destruction: A Case Study

The World Bank’s support for giant coal fired power plants in India and South Africa illustrate the organisation’s many institutional failings. This article is part of a series by openDemocracy and the Bretton Woods...

Read more April 12, 2019 at 11:07 am Open Democracy

आम चुनाव में सभी उम्मीदवारों से मप्र के जन आंदोलनों की मांगे और संकल्प

आम चुनाव में सभी उम्मीदवारों से मप्र के जन आंदोलनों की मांगे और संकल्प मध्यप्रदेश जन संघर्ष समन्वय समिती 4-5, आप्रैल 2019, युथ होस्टल, जबलपुर आगामी आम चुनाव के संदर्भ में, 4-5 अप्रैल 2019...

Read more April 11, 2019 at 6:31 pm Madhya Pradesh Jan-Sangharsh Samanvay Samiti

Demands from the Peoples Movements of MP to the Lok Sabha Candidates

Demands from the Peoples Movements of MP to the Lok Sabha Candidates Madhya Pradesh Jan-Sangharsh Samanvay Samiti April 4-5, 2019, Youth Hostel, Jabalpur In the context of the upcoming general election, a two days consultation...

Read more April 11, 2019 at 6:05 pm Madhya Pradesh Jan-Sangharsh Samanvay Samiti

Update: A Great Victory: The Fight Continues!

In its historic decision on 27th Feb 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that international organizations like the World Bank Group “don’t enjoy absolute immunity”. Simply put, with this judgement, the World Bank and...

Read more April 6, 2019 at 9:00 am Anuradha Munshi

Historic Verdict On The Immunity Of IFIs Celebrated

March 31, 2019, Mundra, Gujarat: In an afternoon with 41-degree heat, hundreds of men, women, and children from Navinal and Tagri villages of Kutch, and members from the civil society and peoples’ movements from across...

Read more April 5, 2019 at 8:10 pm Ankit Agrawal

Congress Manifesto Recognises Air Pollution Crisis

The Congress manifesto for the Lok Sabha polls recognises air pollution as public health emergency, but whether other political parties, like the BJP or the AAP, will take note of this is yet to...

Banks Invested $1.9 trillion On Fossil Fuels Since The Paris Agreement

Executive summary from the report Banking on Climate Change, Fossil Fuel Finance Report Card 2019. The report is prepared by Rainforests Action Network, BankTrack, Sierra Club, Oil Change, Indigenous Environmental Network, Honour The Earth. This year, 163...

Big Business Captured the Negotiations in Katowice

The Paris Rulebook (renamed the ‘Katowice Rulebook’ by many), the outcome of 24th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC COP24), exposes the perils of a pledge-and-review system. In...

Read more February 8, 2019 at 10:32 pm Souparna Lahiri

विशेष रिपोर्ट: एनटीपीसी का कड़वा सच

नेशनल थर्मल पाॅवर काॅरपोरेशन (एनटीपीसी) भारत के चार ‘‘नवरत्नों‘‘ में से एक होने के साथ, एक “फार्च्यून 500” कंपनी भी है। भारत के विकास में एनटीपीसी ने चार दशकों से ऊपर एक अहम् भूमिका...

Read more January 1, 2019 at 1:55 pm Nishank

Tata Mundra UMPP: A History of Violations & Peoples’ Resistance

Bharat Patel, General Secretary, Machimar Adhikar Sangharsh Sangathan, narrating the history of violations by the IFC, Tata Mundra Power Plant and Peoples’ Resistance to it. The MAAS filed a case in the US federal...

Read more October 31, 2018 at 1:16 pm CFA

Special Report: The Dark Side of NTPC

This exclusive report documents the violations caused by the NTPC’s 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...

Read more October 25, 2018 at 12:17 pm Nishank

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