In another week, on June 2, Ajay Banga will take over as the 14th president of the World Bank Group, the all-men’s club, except for Kristalina Georgieva, who had become World Bank’s acting president...
The Indian government has kept its eye on billions in revenue from the polluting petrochemical industry while making half-hearted measures to curb plastic use.
Recently, after my talk on the current economic situation in India at a private university, I was asked, why those students should be concerned about inequality and poverty.
Climate change action demands stricter emissions control of Asia Pacific’s coal burners, say analysts.
A Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) case against celebrated environmental lawyer Ritwick Dutta is replete with factual errors
Most Indian banks and financial institutions do not have any environmental and social safeguard mechanisms.
Instead of being limited by fiscal deficits, governments should instead raise tax the super rich to raise funds for healthcare and other welfare measures.
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank, is to stop supporting new coal projects, a move described by campaigners as welcome but long overdue.
The IFC has reportedly lent close to $5 billion to almost 88 financial institutions in India
An extension of the coal reduction policy to all lending will act as a strong impetus for Indian financial institutions to strengthen their own policies on coal reduction.
The case of Puducherry shows us how Union Territories, as pockets of arbitrary power, enable an authoritarian role for the Union government while trampling upon the core of federalism and democracy. In recent years,...
“Operation successful but the patient died” is perhaps the best phrase to describe the handling of the Brahmapuram fire which ravaged the city of Kochi. Spread over 110 acres of land, the Brahmapuram dumpyard...
The Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) proposed amendments to several environmental laws in July 2022, including the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974. The amendments aimed to reduce...
As many as 70 people’s movements, trade unions and civil society organisations (CSOs)* have asserted that India’s biggest ever coal mine auction, announced in November last year “will aggravate climate crisis” and “is against...
In a statement signed by over 50 civil society organisations and concerned citizens, FAN believes, Joshimath Disaster is the”inevitable result of long neglect of scientific warnings, of gross financialization of nature and total lack...