A Tragic Predicament
Excerpt from Wild Fictions By Amitav Ghosh ‘Trees were my teachers,’ wrote the German poet Friedrich Hölderlin, and if there is any place on Earth that could say the same of itself, it is...
Indian Banks and Environmental Accountability: A New Year of Complicity and Deception?
Indian banks walked nonchalantly into the new year, their indifference as thick as the smoke from industrial projects they finance. Pollution levels soared, environmental concerns, and sometimes protests, were witnessed over big infra projects...
With the Earth’s Life Support Systems in Peril :Fossil fuel financing continues unabated.
The news was flashed all across world’s media – the year 2023 was not only the warmest year on instrumented records (available for about the past 170 years), but was calculated to be the...
Climate accountability: Disclose more, put checks before financing mega projects
In a globalised context, insufficient disclosure of climate risks may diminish a bank’s attractiveness to international investors.
Energy profile of G20 countries: are they compliant with necessary Climate actions?
In recent times, wherever one travels in India, and in all big cities, one is bombarded with the message on the lines that “India under Modi rule has become so great that the G20,...
India Pitches for Climate Finance Internationally, But Prioritises ‘Development’ at Home
The year 2022 saw renewed urgency and consistency in India’s pitch to demand ‘climate finance’.
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...
