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October 30, 2024
Energy Matters | September 2024
Centre for Financial Accountability joined the Global Week of Action for Climate Finance and a Fossil-Free Future along with our partners. This campaign was run from September 13-20. We used the week to highlight our work against Fossil Fuels on social media, as well as highlighting protests on the ...
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September 23, 2024
Energy Matters | August 2024
It is concerning to know that the International Finance Corporation (IFC) is proposing to fund 4 waste to energy plants in Gujarat. The investment of about USD 40 million to collectively burn 3,750 tons of garbage per day and release CO2 equivalent to the emissions from about 18,75,000 cars. It will...
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August 12, 2024
Energy Matters | July 2024
On Jul 22, 2024, the Finance Minister, Ms Nirmala Sitharaman presented the union budget for 2024-25. A number of new announcements were made in the energy sector. A new pumped storage policy was announced along with the promise to push for more pumped storage as a way to mitigate intermittency of re...
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June 24, 2024
Energy Matters | June 2024
The Karnataka State Climate Action Plan that was prepared in 2021 has received approval from the central government. The state is all set to implement this plan. This comes at a time when the state recently faced one of the worst droughts in its history and the country has faced one of the hottest s...
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May 17, 2024
Energy Matters | May 2024
The demand for fossil oil and fossil gas is also driven sharply by the petrochemicals industry. Petrochemicals now account for 14% of oil use, and are expected to drive half of oil demand growth between now and 2050. In India, the installed capacity of polymers, one of the petrochemicals which are b...
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July 18, 2023
Energy Matters | May, June 2023
Dear readers, Here is another issue of Energy Matters, bringing to you the latest updates from the energy sector along with analysis and impacts, politics, investments, and science of the emerging developments in the sector. The UN’s second round of International Negotiating Committee (INC-2) meetin...
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May 23, 2023
Energy Matters | April 2023
Dear readers, We present to you issue #4 of Energy Matters, our monthly newsletter on Energy Finance. Through this newsletter, we aim to bring you updates on the latest news in the energy sector; and analysis of the impacts, politics, investments, and science of the emerging developments in the ener...
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April 13, 2023
Energy Matters | March 2023
Dear readers, We present to you issue #3 of Energy Matters. Through this newsletter, we aim to bring to you updates on the latest news in the energy sector; and analysis of the impacts, politics, investments, and science of the emerging developments in the energy sector. This month, Soumya Dutta, hi...
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March 20, 2023
Energy Matters | February 2023
Dear readers, Welcome to issue #2 of Energy Matters, a monthly newsletter which offers updates on the latest news in the energy sector; and analysis on the impacts, politics, investments and science of the emerging developments in the energy sector. This month, Soumya Dutta writes his monthly...
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February 14, 2023
Energy Matters | January 2023
Dear readers, Welcome to Energy Matters, a monthly newsletter which offers updates on the latest developments in the energy sector; and analysis of the impacts, politics, investments, and science of those developments. This month we start with a column from Soumya Dutta on the Energy profile ...
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