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India’s solar sector faces a reality check amid Gautam Adani’s US legal storm

President Donald Trump’s suspension of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act could impact allegations against Indian t...

Centre for Financial Accountability urges RBI to broaden scope of climate-related financial risk framework

The CFA emphasised the critical need to empower shareholders, customers, and the general public with comprehensive infor...

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L&T Finance replaced SBI as the biggest renewable energy financier in 2021: Study

The fifth edition of Coal vs Renewable Financial Analysis, authored by Climate Trends and Centre for Financial Accou...

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Green advocates praise Budget 2020, concerns on fund allocation

In her speech, she highlighted the need to shut down old coal plants. India has about 48GW worth of coal power plants t...

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Renewable Energy Projects Captured 80% of all Energy Financing in India in 2018

In 2018, a total of 49 renewable energy projects with a combined capacity of 4.7 Gw obtained loans of Rs 24,442 crore Ne...

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Can Norway’s Oil, Gas Divestment Encourage India’s Leapfrog Into Solar?

Given that India is building many of the world’s biggest solar parks and also harbours high wind power ambitions, there ...

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Cut Out Taking Those Shortcuts

This February, in a landmark decision, the US Supreme Court ruled that financial institutions like the World Bank’s Inte...

Coverage International Finance Tata Mundra Ultra Mega Project World Bank

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From Paris to Bangladesh, How the Climate-Change Accord is Imploding

The onslaught of a new power plant on the fragile ecology of the Sunderbans is fresh proof of the futility of climate re...

Coverage Rampal Smitu Kothari Fellowship 2018

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How We’re Legalising the ‘Bezzle’

Much has been written about the nonperforming asset (NPA) crisis plaguing the Indian banking system. The Insolvency and ...

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Indian State-run Banks Financed more Coal than Renewable Energy in 2017: Study

The report, prepared by Delhi-based Centre for Financial Accountability (CFA), finds that coal received Rs 60,767 crore ...

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March 14, 2025

The Economic Times

India’s solar sector faces a reality check amid Gautam Adani’s US legal storm

President Donald Trump’s suspension of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act could impact allegations against Indian tycoon Gautam Adani regarding a solar project bribery scheme. This highlights vulnerabilities in India’s solar sector, struggling with financial instability and delays in tran...

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May 6, 2024

The Economic Times

Centre for Financial Accountability urges RBI to broaden scope of climate-related financial risk framework

The CFA emphasised the critical need to empower shareholders, customers, and the general public with comprehensive information on the climate crisis’s impact on FI investments. In response to the Reserve Bank of India‘s (RBI) ‘Draft Disclosure Framework on Climate-Related Financial...

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December 13, 2022

The Economic Times

L&T Finance replaced SBI as the biggest renewable energy financier in 2021: Study

The fifth edition of Coal vs Renewable Financial Analysis, authored by Climate Trends and Centre for Financial Accountability (CFA), was released at CFA’s annual energy finance conference hosted in collaboration with IIT Madras on Tuesday. Coal vs Renewables Financial Analysis 2022 identi...

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February 7, 2020

The Economic Times

Green advocates praise Budget 2020, concerns on fund allocation

In her speech, she highlighted the need to shut down old coal plants. India has about 48GW worth of coal power plants that are old and don’t comply with the new emission standards. New Delhi: Green advocates on Sunday praised Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s Budget speech ...

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August 20, 2019

The Economic Times

Renewable Energy Projects Captured 80% of all Energy Financing in India in 2018

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 cent to Rs 6,081 crore in 2018 as against 2017 while the funding for renewable energy projects grew by Rs 1,529 ...

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March 26, 2019

The Economic Times

Can Norway’s Oil, Gas Divestment Encourage India’s Leapfrog Into Solar?

Given that India is building many of the world’s biggest solar parks and also harbours high wind power ambitions, there is no reason to waste precious foreign currency on imported gas or thermal coal State Bank of India’s Chairman Rajnish Kumar would not be surprised about Norway’s recent decision t...

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June 20, 2019

The Economic Times

Cut Out Taking Those Shortcuts

This February, in a landmark decision, the US Supreme Court ruled that financial institutions like the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) are not immune from the law of land, and can be held accountable for their decisions across the world. This was the first time ever a case chall...

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June 8, 2019

The Economic Times

From Paris to Bangladesh, How the Climate-Change Accord is Imploding

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. A signboard announcing a cement factory in Mongla, Bangladesh. Photo by Sajjad Hossien Tuhin Until two years ago, 28-year-old Sajjad Hossain Tu...

Coverage Rampal Smitu Kothari Fellowship 2018

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February 19, 2019

The Economic Times

How We’re Legalising the ‘Bezzle’

Much has been written about the nonperforming asset (NPA) crisis plaguing the Indian banking system. The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) has been widely hailed as the silver bullet. But it has arguably done more to systematically ‘destroy value’ in the economy than any other legislation in the ...

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November 20, 2018

The Economic Times

Indian State-run Banks Financed more Coal than Renewable Energy in 2017: Study

The report, prepared by Delhi-based Centre for Financial Accountability (CFA), finds that coal received Rs 60,767 crore ($9.35 billion) in lending whereas renewable energy received Rs 22,913 crore ($3.50 billion). New Delhi: A majority of state-owned banks and financial institutions in India continu...

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