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’.
National Financial Institutions lent 7.12 lakh crores to TPPs between 2005-2022: Study
The report finds 65% accrues to NBFCs, 31% came from public sector banks, and 4% from private banks
“India can Achieve Net-Zero By 2047”: Experts
Sectoral experts, academics and climate activists deliberate on multiple issues related to Energy and Finance at the 4th annual Energy Finance Conference India, 2022 organised at IIT-Madras, Centre for Financial Accountability, Indo-German Center for...
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...
“India can achieve Net Zero by 2047”: Experts
Sectoral experts, academics and climate activists deliberate on multiple issues related to Energy and Finance at the 4th annual Energy Finance Conference India, 2022 organised at IIT-Madras, Centre for Financial Accountability, Indo-German Center for...
A very brief report of major points of outcomes and disappointments of COP-27
Soumya Dutta traveled to Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, to participate in the 27th Conference of Parties (COP-27) of the UNFCCC. Along with participating in a host of meetings & public protests and speaking with...
A NITI Aayog-Commissioned Report Unveils the Hypocrisy of Modi Govt’s ‘Climate Concerns’
The report seems to only focus on guilt tripping the judiciary by mechanistically enumerating immediate economic losses owing to the stalling and closures effected by rulings. It is symptomatic of the urge of the...
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...