Delhi-NCR civil society organizations, communities, and citizens urge the government to scrap the proposed expansion of toxic waste-to-energy incinerator projects in the National Capital Region

The deteriorating air quality and its health hazards across the world has raised the concerns around people’s right to breathe clean air. Delhi-NCR, particularly in the winter months, has in fact emerged as a...

Read more October 25, 2024 at 12:22 pm CFA

चुटका निर्माण के सवालों पर व्यापक विमर्श हो

चुटका परमाणु विरोधी संघर्ष समिति के दादू लाल कुङापे और मीरा बाई मरावी तथा बरगी बांध विस्थापित एवं प्रभावित संघ के राज कुमार सिन्हा ने संयुक्त बयान जारी करते हुए कहा है कि चुटका...

Read more October 16, 2024 at 4:57 pm Dadu Lal Kungaape, Meera Bai Maravi & Raj Kumar Sinha

Banking on Renewables: Powering People, Protecting the planet | Report

There are already predictions that 2024 will be the hottest year on record,1 and that the Paris goal of keeping global average temperatures below 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming is at critical risk of...

Read more October 16, 2024 at 3:40 pm Recourse

Putting just transition at the heart of solar power: A case study on India

India has set ambitious targets for renewable energy (RE). The Government of India set an ambitious target in 2015 of installing 175GW of renewable energy capacity by 2022. Since then, as part of the...

Read more October 16, 2024 at 3:20 pm Anitha Sampath

Statement to the multilateral development banks: Criteria for public investments in 100% renewable energy for climate, for people, for the planet.

In response to the urgent need for global climate action, the COP28 climate negotiations set a target to triple global renewable energy capacity by 2030, demanding a significant transfer of public finance towards the...

Read more October 16, 2024 at 3:06 pm CFA

मध्यप्रदेश में अमृत सरोवर का यथार्थ

आजादी का अमृत महोत्सव काल में अमृत सरोवर (तालाब) योजना शुरू किया गया था। जिसमें देश के 28 राज्य और 5 केंद्र शासित प्रदेश शामिल थे। सभी जिलों में 75 अमृत सरोवर को विकसित...

Read more October 14, 2024 at 9:00 am Raj Kumar Sinha

वर्षा की तीव्रता,आवृत्ति और बांध के कारण बाढ़ आपदा

औसत वैश्विक तापमान वृद्धि के कारण लंबे समय तक बारिश न होने के और अचानक अत्यधिक बारिश की घटना के कारण बाढ़ में बढोतरी हुआ है। आपदा आने से ठीक पहले वायनाड केरल में...

Read more September 30, 2024 at 4:12 pm Raj Kumar Sinha

Waste-to-energy plants may cause more pollution: NGOs

Waste-to-energy (WTE) plants, which are touted as the ‘magic solution’ to solve the solid waste management crisis in the city, are not all that safe for environment and public health, say activists from some...

Read more September 23, 2024 at 3:04 pm Padmaja J

Centre for Financial Accountability Launches a New Microsite dedicated to its Plastics Fuel Infertility Campaign

Press Note 12 September 2024, Delhi: Centre for Financial Accountability (CFA) launched an exclusive microsite dedicated to its ‘Plastics Fuel Infertility’ campaign (PFIC), on 28th August 2024 through an online event. The Campaign aims...

Read more September 18, 2024 at 4:10 pm CFA

India’s Huge Thrust on Petrochemicals Belies its Tall Talk on Sustainable Energy

For a long time, India has been advocating for the end of unsustainable use-and-throw economy. However, in a case of mismatch between its words and action, about 79% of the budget allocated for the...

Read more September 2, 2024 at 3:33 pm Swathi Seshadri

174 Civil Society Organizations, Networks, and Activists Oppose Financing by IFC for Abellon Clean Energy’s Toxic, Pollution Waste-to-Energy Projects in Gujarat, India

PRESS RELEASE | 23.08.24 August 23, 2024 – A collective letter written by the Centre for Financial Accountability, International Accountability Project, National Hawkers Federation, GAIA-Asia Pacific, and Break Free From Plastics and endorsed by...

Read more August 23, 2024 at 3:29 pm CFA

Gujarat: 174 Civil Society Outfits Urge World Bank to Reject Loan for Harmful Waste-to-Energy Projects

A coalition of 174 civil society organisations, networks, and activists has written to the World Bank’s board of directors, urging them to reject funding for four waste-to-energy (WTE) incineration projects proposed by Abellon Clean...

Read more August 23, 2024 at 3:12 pm The Wire

Burn and Earn: Another facet of Plastic Credits and the false solution that it is

Fighting plastic pollution is a herculean task in itself. However, on top of fighting to save the planet and the people from the impacts of the entire plastic life-cycle

Read more July 31, 2024 at 10:03 am Chythenyen Devika Kulasekaran

PACKAGE: Where has the plastic waste disappeared?

One in three plastic generators in Tamil Nadu does not recycle plastic waste according to govt-mandated norms. Despite a Feb 2022 Union govt rule for all plastic waste generators to recycle their waste under...

Read more July 31, 2024 at 9:49 am Times of India

A letter to the EDs of the IFC regarding the potential harms of investing in the WTE projects in Gujarat

Abellon Clean Energy Limited (ACEL) is a Waste to Energy (WTE) developer based out of Gujarat in India, who is developing 4 WTE plants in Rajkot, Vadodara, Ahmedabad and Jamnagar of cumulative capacity 52.20...