Fossil Fuel-based Economy and human rights – Submission by Indian Civil Society Groups

On 28 February 2025, a joint submission was made by 12 Indian civil society groups to the United Nations Human Rights Council. The Human Rights Council is an intergovernmental body within the United Nations...

Read more March 7, 2025 at 3:49 pm CFA

जलवायु परिवर्तन संकट में ताप विद्युत संयंत्रों की भूमिका

जलवायु परिवर्तन का संकट तो वैश्विक समस्या है। जिसके कई कारण हैं, जैसे कि जीवाश्म ईंधनों (कोयला,तेल और गैस) का जलना, वनों की कटाई और कृषि। वनों की कटाई विकास परियोजनाओं, कृषि विस्तार और...

Read more February 27, 2025 at 3:31 pm 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

गर्मी से गहराता संकट

भारत का साल 2024 पिछले 15 वर्षों में सबसे तीव्र और सबसे अधिक गर्मी वाले दिनों का वर्ष बन गया है। मौसम विभाग के अनुसार उत्तर प्रदेश, हरियाणा, चंडीगढ़, दिल्ली, उत्तराखंड, हिमाचल, मध्य प्रदेश,...

Read more July 4, 2024 at 5:43 pm Raj Kumar Sinha

Green energy is an absolute lie!

Out of the billions of animals that have lived and died on Earth, the human race has developed a voracious appetite for energy far beyond what is necessary for our biological needs.

Read more May 8, 2024 at 5:59 pm Geo Damin

Rethinking Energy Transition

Fossil fuels—coal, oil, and gas—are the largest contributor to global climate change, responsible for more than 75% of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions, and nearly 90% of all carbon dioxide emissions.

Read more September 13, 2023 at 6:32 pm CFA

Climate Change and Energy: Challenges for a Just Transition

By now, there is an almost universal consensus that the world energy systems must move away from climate-threatening fossil fuels and into non-carbon, safe, and sustainable sources.

Read more May 18, 2023 at 11:56 am Soumya Dutta

Deadly heatwaves threaten to reverse India’s progress on poverty and inequality – new research

Record-breaking heatwaves in April 2022 put 90% of people in India at increased risk of going hungry, losing income or premature death, according to our new study.

Read more May 10, 2023 at 12:23 pm Ramit Debnath and Ronita Bardhan

Demand to scrap ‘unnecessary, potentially harmful’ large, new coal blocks’ auction

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...

Read more January 19, 2023 at 3:52 pm Counterview

How the financial institutions are accomplices in Joshimath disaster | THE MONEY TRAIL

Warnings, protests, resignations and court cases have played out right before our eyes since the 1990s. But everybody acts surprised as the Joshimath town sinks.

Read more January 18, 2023 at 1:01 pm CFA

India’s Biggest Ever Coal Mine Auction will Aggravate Climate Crisis; Is Against India’s Climate Pledges

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...

Read more January 17, 2023 at 4:13 pm CFA

#COP27 जलवायु शिखर सम्मेलन वैश्विक तापमान को रोकने में नाकामयाब

अगले दशक में पृथ्वी 1.5 डिग्री सेल्सियस तापमान से आगे बढ़ जाएगी। शर्म अल-शेख में आयोजित COP 27 जलवायु आपदा से निपटने में एक फ्लॉप साबित हुआ। हर देश और हर समूह ने केवल...

Read more December 19, 2022 at 12:26 pm CFA

How the Climate Summit of 2022 botched up the last chance to control global warming

Our planet is all set to reach and breach the first climate red line of 1.5 degrees Celsius warmer in the next decade. With just 8 years left before the climate disaster, the COP...

Read more December 15, 2022 at 1:31 pm CFA

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

Forest at a Standstill: Development at the Cost of Sundarbans

A Study on the socio-environmental changes in the Indian part of the Sundarbans Delta Deemed as a “World Heritage”, by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) – Sundarbans is one of...

Read more September 14, 2022 at 11:01 am Ishita Bhattacharya