Even as the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) announced its long-awaited review of its Project-affected People’s Mechanism at its annual meeting in Egypt 25-26 September 2023, a new research, published by Recourse, Inclusive Development...
Burning garbage is choking Delhi’s health, environment, livelihoods and finances. It is high time that the AAP government starts addressing the problem of waste, not when it is thrown away, but when it is...
Burning garbage is choking Delhi’s health, environment, livelihoods and finances. It is high time that the AAP government starts addressing the problem of waste, not when it is thrown away, but when it is...
The Print "Ground Report" titled "What is MCD roadmap to 'completely flatten' Delhi's three landfills within a year?" by Sukriti Vats highlights the critical issue of Delhi's massive landfills and the pollution they cause....
We the undersigned express our deep concern on reports in the news media which state that a State Bank of India (SBI) led consortium is planning to invest â‚ą 34,000 crore in the first...
Here is another issue of Energy Matters, bringing to you the latest updates from the energy sector along with analysis and impacts, politics, investments, and science of the emerging developments in the sector.
The UN’s second round of International Negotiating Committee (INC-2) meetings for a global plastics pollution treaty ended in frustration last week after half of the five-day event was spent re-debating procedural rules, such as...
About a decade ago, in 2013, the Planning Commission constituted the “Task Force on Waste-to-Energy” to identify technically feasible, financially affordable and environmentally sound processing and disposal technologies for municipal solid waste in India....
India suffers from high rates of malnutrition, especially among women and children. The government claims that the fortification of food can be a sure-shot solution to combat it. As rice is a staple diet...
Dear readers, We present to you issue #3 of Energy Matters. Through this newsletter, we aim to bring to you updates on the latest news in the energy sector; and analysis of the impacts, politics,...
Globalisation and consumerism are the two elements that define our present economic era. Intricately entwined, and complementing each other they have come to occupy a dominant position in this political economy. This hegemony of...
The infrastructure finance update for the month of March 2023 covers mostly updates from the sectors of roads and highways, smart cities, ports and logistics. The government is making significant investments and working to...
Welcome to Energy Matters, a monthly newsletter which offers updates on the latest developments in the energy sector; and analysis of the impacts, politics, investments, and science of those developments
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...
The central government opening the biggest new coal mine auction, announced in November 2022, is a mockery of the Prime Minister’s own climate announcements at climate change summits, and an invitation to worsening the...
