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.
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...
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...
Use of Hydrogen in the Industry
Looking at the use of hydrogen in steel-making and other industries would help complete the picture of hydrogen as a source of energy for propelling economic activities; after discussing the history of hydrogen and...
India’s Plastic Ban: A triumph for the fossil fuel industry?
Effective July 1, 2022, the Union government has banned identified single use plastics (SUPs) as mandated by the Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2021. The stated aim of this ban is to arrest plastic pollution...
IMF’s new policy at odds with green Covid-19 recovery
A new review of the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) most recent economic policy advice for five countries with ongoing coal sector expansions show it is green-lighting fossil fuel expansion, despite the fund’s stated support...
India Tops G20 Governments as Third Largest Supporter of Coal
Press Release | May 27, 2020 New report updates analysis of public financing for energy projects To view or download the full report: http://foe.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/2020.05.26_Still-Digging-report_final.pdf WASHINGTON, D.C. / New Delhi – A new report released...
STILL DIGGING: G20 GOVERNMENTS CONTINUE TO FINANCE THE CLIMATE CRISIS
In 2015, governments around the world committed to hold global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius (°C) and to strive to limit warming to 1.5°C by adopting the Paris Agreement. This analysis shows...
Too Many Costs for Too Little: The Story of Tata Mundra
Statement in response to news reports that the company has written to the Ministry of Power that they will stop operating the Mundra project from February 2020. Mundra, Gujarat January 13, 2020: Tata power...
Asia Digs up and Burns Three-quarters of the World’s Coal
That must change if the climate is not to A LARGE SIGN in the city hall of San Carlos, on the island of Negros in the Philippines, lays out the local government’s ambitions. It...
Regulators, Experts, Activists Discusses Energy Finance in India Over Two Days
August 18, 2019, Chennai: The recently concluded two-day conference on Energy Finance in India at IIT Madras witnessed enthusiastic participation from various regulators, experts, industry leaders, bankers, activists and discussion on issues related to...
JPMorgan Chase Must Stop Financing Fossil Fuels, Demand 300 CSOs
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...
Over 300 Organisations Ask JPMorgan Chase to Stop Financing Fossil Fuels
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...
Banks Invested $1.9 trillion On Fossil Fuels Since The Paris Agreement
Executive summary from the report Banking on Climate Change, Fossil Fuel Finance Report Card 2019. The report is prepared by Rainforests Action Network, BankTrack, Sierra Club, Oil Change, Indigenous Environmental Network, Honour The Earth. This year, 163...
Banks Need to Follow StanChart’s Lead and End New Coal Finance
By ruling out funding new coal-fired power plants globally, Standard Chartered has sent the message that developing countries such as Vietnam deserve clean air and water. Standard Chartered announced this week that it “will...
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