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Renewable

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...

Read more December 8, 2022 at 2:16 pm CFA and Climate Trends

Lithium Generated Energy: A Renewable Boon or a ‘Green’ Hoax

Introduction Electric vehicles (EVs) have recently become the buzz word for all the wrong reasons. Almost half a dozen incidents of EVs catching fire have been reported in India since late March of this...

Read more May 30, 2022 at 7:02 pm Shreshta Chowdhury

Remembering the Challakere case: The National Green Tribunal on the environmental impacts of solar power

India is aggressively promoting the growth of renewable energy in its quest to be a global leader on climate action, but it continues to ignore concerns about the social and environmental impacts of promoting...

Read more April 28, 2022 at 1:17 pm Malvika Kaushik

Indian lenders reduce funding for coal projects, clean energy gets more loans for 3rd straight year

Clean energy projects got 74% of the total funds from financial institutions last year, or ₹24380 crore, according to a report by Climate Trends and Centre for Financial Accountability. Indian lenders channeled more funds to...

Read more December 24, 2021 at 12:44 pm CFA

Press Release on the inaugural of Energy Finance Conference India

The Inaugural Session of the 2nd Energy Finance Conference India 2020 builds the blueprint for an economically and socio-politically feasible sustainable energy transition A distinguished panel of academics, policy experts and activists pitches for...

Read more December 8, 2020 at 4:21 pm CFA

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...

Read more May 27, 2020 at 2:01 pm CFA

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...

Read more May 27, 2020 at 1:20 pm CFA

National Consultation on The Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2020 DATE: 29th April 2020

As India struggles through battling a pandemic and subsequent shut down, the government seems to be in no mood on pausing in stifling controversial issues that majorly impact the economy of the country. After...

Read more May 21, 2020 at 10:05 am CFA

A Bill that is Badly Timed, Mal-Directed and Devoid of Basics

Any Act or bill to get an act on electricity (or the larger issues of primary energy), has to first comprehend the basic functions electricity has in human society. Presumably, some form of electricity might...

Read more April 30, 2020 at 7:13 pm Soumya Dutta

Financing India’s renewable energy vision

India’s target of achieving 175 GW of renewable energy capacity by 2022 might appear ambitious, but it is crucial as it will have a positive impact on the country’s economic growth, energy security and...

Read more February 7, 2020 at 5:34 pm Alok Raj Gupta

Briefing Paper: AP Govt Undermining Climate and Air Pollution Goals

New analysis by Center for Financial Accountability shows that the Andhra Pradesh government appears to be singling out renewable energy projects in the guise of lowering electricity purchase costs, while ignoring higher cost coal...

Read more September 25, 2019 at 2:03 pm CFA

India Needs Up To $700Bn Investment In Renewable Energy

India’s government has ambitious plans to achieve 175 GW of renewable energy capacity by March 2022, although it was standing only at over 81 GW by the end of July 2019. It is even...

Read more August 20, 2019 at 7:12 pm Taiyang News

Renewable Energy Sources Defeating Coal, Says Report

Lenders prefer renewable energy over coal, especially in 2018: Centre for Financial Accountability Report Coal Vs Renewable Is coal losing its charm? Yes, if the recently released report Coal Vs Renewable is to be believed. Lenders...

Read more August 19, 2019 at 6:29 pm Down To Earth

Coal Power Unsustainable, Sharp Decline in Lending by Financial Institutions, Says CFA Report

The Centre for Financial Accountability has found that only five coal power projects with a total capacity of 3800 MW received financing of ₹6,081 crore in 2018. New Delhi: Amid economic slowdown, a latest...

Read more August 18, 2019 at 12:18 pm News18

Clean energy projects get four times more finance than the coal-fired ones in 2018: Report

NEW DELHI: India may be the fastest-growing energy market in the world, but its lending to coal power projects had seen a massive dip last year as compared to 2017. The renewables (solar and...

Read more August 17, 2019 at 6:39 pm Times of India
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