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NUMBERS TO NARRATIVES—Reading Data and Building Stories

4-Day Residential Workshop Dates: 2nd to 5th November 2026 Background What happens on the ground often leaves a trai...

Climate on the Floor

India’s Parliamentary Discourse on Environment since the Paris Agreement. This report examines the evolution of India’s ...

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Why was the Bhumi Green Energy Waste-to-Energy Incinerator Plant temporarily shut down?

This fact-finding report examines the environmental compliance, monitoring practices, and impacts on agriculture and h...

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Free No More: UPI’s New Fee and Who Really Pays | Editorial

Finance Matters | 18 September 2026 For years, UPI has been sold to Indians as a triumph of public infrastructure, free,...

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Jawaharnagar dumpsite world’s top methane emitters

According to the report, Jawaharnagar is the largest waste-related methane emitter in India and the fourth largest in...

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Waste Energy Project : कचऱ्यापासून वीज निर्मिती प्रकल्पांचा प्रदूषण निर्देशांक १०० पैकी १००; सेंटर फॉर फायनान्शियल अकाउंटेबिलिटीच्या विश्लेषणात दावा

कचऱ्याचा डोंगर कमी करून त्यातून वीज निर्मिती करण्याच्या संकल्पनेमागे पर्यावरणीय प्रदूषणाचा एक मोठा धोका दडला असल्याचा ध...

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औष्णिक प्रकल्पांपेक्षाही घातक! कचऱ्यापासून वीज निर्मिती की प्रदूषणाचा महाधोका? अहवालाने उडवली खळबळ

मोशी, सांगली प्रकल्पांवर प्रश्नचिन्ह प्रदूषण निर्देशांकात १०० पैकी १०० गुण कचऱ्यापासून वीज निर्मिती प्रकल्पांचा अधिकृत न...

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Delhi’s waste-to-energy plants more polluting than coal units: Study

A new analysis has found that four major waste-to-energy incineration plants in Delhi have a cumulative Pollution Index...

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Organisation raises pollutionconcerns over proposed Coimbatore WTE plant

The Centre for Financial Accountability (CFA), a research and advocacy organisationworking on public finance, accountabi...

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Political Economy of Development Finance: People, Climate and Economy

Date: 29th Oct to 1st Nov, 2026 Development sounds like a “neutral” term, but in effect it’s one of the most contested ...

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October 9, 2026

CFA

NUMBERS TO NARRATIVES—Reading Data and Building Stories

4-Day Residential Workshop Dates: 2nd to 5th November 2026 Background What happens on the ground often leaves a trail in the paperwork. Money that does not reach a village, a river polluted by a corporation, or a welfare scheme that fails its beneficiaries can all be traced through official reco...

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October 1, 2026

Hajira Puthige

Climate on the Floor

India’s Parliamentary Discourse on Environment since the Paris Agreement. This report examines the evolution of India’s legislative engagement with the climate crisis during the critical decade following the adoption of the Paris Agreement in December 2015. As the world’s largest democracy and one o...

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October 1, 2026

CFA

Why was the Bhumi Green Energy Waste-to-Energy Incinerator Plant temporarily shut down?

This fact-finding report examines the environmental compliance, monitoring practices, and impacts on agriculture and health of the Bhumi Green Energy Waste-to-Energy incinerator plant located in Tung village, Sangli district, Maharashtra. The report is based on documents obtained through the RTI A...

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September 25, 2026

CFA

Free No More: UPI’s New Fee and Who Really Pays | Editorial

Finance Matters | 18 September 2026 For years, UPI has been sold to Indians as a triumph of public infrastructure, free, instant, and universal. That story just changed. Starting October 15, every UPI transaction above ₹2,000 will attract a 0.4% fee, capped at ₹300 for payments of ₹75,000 and above....

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September 22, 2026

Metro India

Jawaharnagar dumpsite world’s top methane emitters

According to the report, Jawaharnagar is the largest waste-related methane emitter in India and the fourth largest in the world metro india news I hyderabad A new report by the Centre for Financial Accountability (CFA) has raised serious questions about Waste-to-Energy (WTE) plants in India. It ...

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September 22, 2026

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Waste Energy Project : कचऱ्यापासून वीज निर्मिती प्रकल्पांचा प्रदूषण निर्देशांक १०० पैकी १००; सेंटर फॉर फायनान्शियल अकाउंटेबिलिटीच्या विश्लेषणात दावा

कचऱ्याचा डोंगर कमी करून त्यातून वीज निर्मिती करण्याच्या संकल्पनेमागे पर्यावरणीय प्रदूषणाचा एक मोठा धोका दडला असल्याचा धक्कादायक दावा एका नवीन अहवालातून आला समोर. पुणे – कचऱ्याचा डोंगर कमी करून त्यातून वीज निर्मिती करण्याच्या संकल्पनेमागे पर्यावरणीय प्रदूषणाचा एक मोठा धोका दडला असल्याच...

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September 21, 2026

Navarashtra

औष्णिक प्रकल्पांपेक्षाही घातक! कचऱ्यापासून वीज निर्मिती की प्रदूषणाचा महाधोका? अहवालाने उडवली खळबळ

मोशी, सांगली प्रकल्पांवर प्रश्नचिन्ह प्रदूषण निर्देशांकात १०० पैकी १०० गुण कचऱ्यापासून वीज निर्मिती प्रकल्पांचा अधिकृत निर्देशांक ९७.६ सुनयना सोनवणे / पुणे: कचऱ्याचा डोंगर कमी करून त्यातून वीज निर्मिती करण्याच्या संकल्पनेमागे पर्यावरणीय प्रदूषणाचा मोठा धोका दडला असल्याचा दावा एका नवीन अहवालातून समोर...

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September 21, 2026

The Pioneer

Delhi’s waste-to-energy plants more polluting than coal units: Study

A new analysis has found that four major waste-to-energy incineration plants in Delhi have a cumulative Pollution Index score of 100, meaning they are more polluting than coal-fired thermal power plants and petrochemical industries. The Pollution Index (PI) for any industrial sector is a number fro...

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September 21, 2026

The Hindu

Organisation raises pollutionconcerns over proposed Coimbatore WTE plant

The Centre for Financial Accountability (CFA), a research and advocacy organisationworking on public finance, accountability and policy issues, has raised concerns, in areport, over the pollution potential of Waste-to-Energy (WTE) incineration plants. The report assumes significance for Coimbatore, ...

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September 30, 2026

CFA

Political Economy of Development Finance: People, Climate and Economy

Date: 29th Oct to 1st Nov, 2026 Development sounds like a “neutral” term, but in effect it’s one of the most contested ideas in modern history and so is the idea of development finance. When in history did “developed” and underdeveloped” become the buzzwords? What’s the politics of these words, and...

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NUMBERS TO NARRATIVES—Reading Data and Building Stories

Climate on the Floor

Why was the Bhumi Green Energy Waste-to-Energy Incinerator Plant temporarily shut down?

Free No More: UPI’s New Fee and Who Really Pays | Editorial

Jawaharnagar dumpsite world’s top methane emitters

औष्णिक प्रकल्पांपेक्षाही घातक! कचऱ्यापासून वीज निर्मिती की प्रदूषणाचा महाधोका? अहवालाने उडवली खळबळ

Delhi’s waste-to-energy plants more polluting than coal units: Study

Organisation raises pollutionconcerns over proposed Coimbatore WTE plant

Political Economy of Development Finance: People, Climate and Economy

NUMBERS TO NARRATIVES—Reading Data and Building Stories

Climate on the Floor

Why was the Bhumi Green Energy Waste-to-Energy Incinerator Plant temporarily shut down?

Free No More: UPI’s New Fee and Who Really Pays | Editorial

Jawaharnagar dumpsite world’s top methane emitters

औष्णिक प्रकल्पांपेक्षाही घातक! कचऱ्यापासून वीज निर्मिती की प्रदूषणाचा महाधोका? अहवालाने उडवली खळबळ

Delhi’s waste-to-energy plants more polluting than coal units: Study

Organisation raises pollutionconcerns over proposed Coimbatore WTE plant

Political Economy of Development Finance: People, Climate and Economy