The report by the Delhi based financial institute Centre for Financial Accountability analysed project finance lending to 54 energy projects that reached financial close in 2018. By IANS NEW DELHI: A financial assessment on Friday...
In 2018, a total of 49 renewable energy projects with a combined capacity of 4.7 Gw obtained loans of Rs 24,442 crore New Delhi: Lending to coal-fired power plants in India slumped 90 per...
Around 300 organisations, representing over thirty million supporters from around the world, called on the JPMorgan Chase to stop financing expansion of fossil fuels, and commit to phasing out funding of fossil fuels in...
On the occasion of Chase’s Annual General Meeting (AGM), over 300 organisations from across the world demanded that JPMorgan Chase must do its part to realize the goals of the Paris Agreement, which calls...
On February 27, 2019, the US Supreme Court in a 7-1 decision ruled that international organisations like the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a private-lending arm of the World Bank Group, do not enjoy absolute...
The generation of solar energy also forms part of the BJP’s plans to ‘double farmers’ income by 2022’ in view of enabling food providers to also take on the role of becoming energy providers....
The Congress manifesto for the Lok Sabha polls recognises air pollution as public health emergency, but whether other political parties, like the BJP or the AAP, will take note of this is yet to...
With the formal process of selection of a new World Bank President kick-starting in a week’s time, it’s imperative to have a view beyond this selection, now that the dust of Jim Kim’s sudden...
The resignation of the World Bank President Jim Yong Kim was an unexpected development given the fact that he had three more years to complete his tenure. Resignations at such a high level after bidding for...
Johannesburg – World Bank president Jim Kim is an ex-leftist who claims that in the mid-1990s he wanted to shut down the Bank. At the time, it was an entirely valid, realistic goal of the 50 Years...
Here’s a lowdown on what good and bad came out of Kim’s reign as the bank’s president and what seems to be the future of the coveted title Jim Yong Kim resigned from the...
The onslaught of a new power plant on the fragile ecology of the Sunderbans is fresh proof of the futility of climate reforms. We bring you a ground report. Until two years ago, 28-year-old...
नेशनल थर्मल पाॅवर काॅरपोरेशन (एनटीपीसी) भारत के चार ‘‘नवरत्नों‘‘ में से एक होने के साथ, एक “फार्च्यून 500″ कंपनी भी है। भारत के विकास में एनटीपीसी ने चार दशकों से ऊपर एक अहम् भूमिका...
India is leading the race in renewable energy but is still expected to become the largest coking coal importer by 2022. Will the country be able to meet its ambitious targets in clean energy...