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Coal vs renewables investment report, India 2022

In early August, the Union Cabinet approved India’s updated Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) that have hence been formally communicated to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). These include goals like reducing the emission intensity...

Read more December 8, 2022 at 2:16 pm CFA and Climate Trends

India’s Climate Action Pledges at Paris COP21 (NDC) and Glasgow COP26: What are these, how far have we come and what needs to improve?

A Briefing Paper IPCC report: ‘now or never’ if the world is to stave off climate disaster.  “Greenhouse gas emissions must peak by 2025 (and reduce by over 45% by 2030), say climate scientists in...

Read more November 1, 2022 at 4:12 pm Soumya Dutta

Solar parks – casting shadow over already ignored open natural ecosystems

In December 2020, when my friend, a forest department staff- Keshava and I were on a bird walk, around one of Asia's largest solar parks in Pavagada, we saw a dog-like creature with a...

Read more September 7, 2022 at 8:08 pm Santosh Pavagada

ESG dilution: Way forward lies in inequality sensitive RE Finance

The first half of this year has been challenging for RE expansion both at the global level and in India. Supply disruptions in coal and Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) owing to the Russia-Ukraine war...

Read more August 1, 2022 at 4:54 pm Amitanshu Verma

Securing Skilled Jobs for the Present and the Future

As the world recovers from the pandemic, and many across the country are trying to find their feet with gainful employment, a study released early this year by CMIE reveals that agriculture absorbed an additional 11...

Read more August 1, 2022 at 3:59 pm Bhargavi S. Rao

Ensuring Green projects are truly Green

A Sustainable Transition The World is looking at a transition from energy production using fossil fuels to renewable energy sources i.e, Wind, water and solar (WWS) in order to achieve the carbon net zero...

Read more August 1, 2022 at 3:36 pm Anirudh Menon

Can Renewable Energy Projects Help in Saving India’s Protected Areas?

India’s Protected Areas play a crucial role in preserving our precious biodiversity. India is home to 89,000 species of animals and 46,000 species of plants and nearly half the world’s aquatic plants. Conservation of...

Read more July 1, 2022 at 12:20 pm Nishank

Lithium Generated Energy: A Renewable Boon or a ‘Green’ Hoax

Introduction Electric vehicles (EVs) have recently become the buzz word for all the wrong reasons. Almost half a dozen incidents of EVs catching fire have been reported in India since late March of this...

Read more May 30, 2022 at 7:02 pm Shreshta Chowdhury

Remembering the Challakere case: The National Green Tribunal on the environmental impacts of solar power

India is aggressively promoting the growth of renewable energy in its quest to be a global leader on climate action, but it continues to ignore concerns about the social and environmental impacts of promoting...

Read more April 28, 2022 at 1:17 pm Malvika Kaushik

Reimagining Renewable Energy for this Earth Day

22nd April 2022 will be the 52nd year since the observation of  Earth Day. A day that marked the birth of the modern environment movement across the West in the back drop of protests against war...

Read more April 21, 2022 at 11:30 am Bhargavi S. Rao

The Hidden Costs of Waste Incineration for Women

Gender mainstreaming (the process of assessing the implications for women and men of any planned action, including legislation, policies or programmes, in all areas and at all levels) became popular in several international institutions,...

Read more March 24, 2022 at 5:14 pm Ashi Datta

Access to Energy and Maternal Health with Dr. Sreeparna Chattopadhyay

The SDGs have set a broad agenda of advancing health and achieving equity by 2030, with SDG 3 calling for promotion of healthy lives and wellbeing for all.

Read more March 22, 2022 at 11:50 am CFA

A Peopleless Budget: Budget 2022 Analysis

The government has over the years made its priorities clear as to whose interest it serves. It is evident from the fact that the government continues with its gross underspending on key social sectors...

Read more February 3, 2022 at 2:50 pm CFA

The Mirage of Clean Power

A system that thrives on an ever-increasing demand for electricity will automatically push the burden to unsatiable demand for the fuels that produce it.

Read more October 29, 2021 at 12:01 pm Vismay Basu

Green Hydrogen as India’s Next Clean Energy Source

Billionaire Gautam Adani, who runs a ports-to-power corporate empire that rules much of India's infrastructure landscape, said in his TiE Sustainability speech this week that he's training his sights next on the green hydrogen...

Read more October 29, 2021 at 10:55 am Tanya Thomas
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