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Delhi’s Waste-to-Energy Incinerators Generate the Most Carbon-Intensive Electricity in India at 4.7 Times the National Grid Average, New Report Finds

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Study estimates 3.4 kg of fossil-origin CO₂ per kWh of net electricity exported; four plants b...

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Climate Justice Must Not Become a Contest Between Neighbours : An Indian climate and ecological-justice perspective to Nepal’s demand

Nepal’s response to the catastrophic Lhende Khola-Bhotekoshi-Trishuli disaster in August 2026 marks an importa...

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A Tragic Predicament

Excerpt from Wild Fictions By Amitav Ghosh ‘Trees were my teachers,’ wrote the German poet Friedrich Hölderlin, and if t...

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Indian Banks and Environmental Accountability: A New Year of Complicity and Deception?

Indian banks walked nonchalantly into the new year, their indifference as thick as the smoke from industrial projects t...

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With the Earth’s Life Support Systems in Peril :Fossil fuel financing continues unabated.

Photo Credits: Freepik The news was flashed all across world’s media – the year 2023 was not only the warmest year on in...

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Climate accountability: Disclose more, put checks before financing mega projects

In a globalised context, insufficient disclosure of climate risks may diminish a bank’s attractiveness to international ...

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Energy profile of G20 countries: are they compliant with necessary Climate actions?

Introduction In recent times, wherever one travels in India, and in all big cities, one is bombarded with the message on...

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India Pitches for Climate Finance Internationally, But Prioritises ‘Development’ at Home

The year 2022 saw renewed urgency and consistency in India’s pitch to demand ‘climate finance’. In July during the visit...

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Ensuring Green projects are truly Green

A Sustainable Transition The World is looking at a transition from energy production using fossil fuels to renewable ene...

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October 29, 2026

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Delhi’s Waste-to-Energy Incinerators Generate the Most Carbon-Intensive Electricity in India at 4.7 Times the National Grid Average, New Report Finds

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Study estimates 3.4 kg of fossil-origin CO₂ per kWh of net electricity exported; four plants burned 735,840 tonnes of plastic. NEW DELHI, India | 29 October 2026 A new report, The Climate Cost of Burning Waste: The Carbon Intensity of Waste-to-Energy Incinerators in D...

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September 16, 2026

Soumya Dutta

Climate Justice Must Not Become a Contest Between Neighbours : An Indian climate and ecological-justice perspective to Nepal’s demand

Nepal’s response to the catastrophic Lhende Khola-Bhotekoshi-Trishuli disaster in August 2026 marks an important shift in how climate disasters are understood. Rather than presenting the Himalayan catastrophe simply as a humanitarian disaster requiring charity, Kathmandu has emphasised its...

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June 30, 2025

Amitav Ghosh

A Tragic Predicament

Excerpt from Wild Fictions By Amitav Ghosh ‘Trees were my teachers,’ wrote the German poet Friedrich Hölderlin, and if there is any place on Earth that could say the same of itself, it is Ternate, a tiny island in the archipelago that was once known as the Moluccas or Spice Islands. It is now part o...

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January 15, 2025

Amitanshu Verma

Indian Banks and Environmental Accountability: A New Year of Complicity and Deception?

Indian banks walked nonchalantly into the new year, their indifference as thick as the smoke from industrial projects they finance. Pollution levels soared, environmental concerns, and sometimes protests, were witnessed over big infra projects from Ladakh to Nicobar. Meanwhile, disasters like the T...

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November 14, 2024

Soumya Dutta

With the Earth’s Life Support Systems in Peril :Fossil fuel financing continues unabated.

Photo Credits: Freepik The news was flashed all across world’s media – the year 2023 was not only the warmest year on instrumented records (available for about the past 170 years), but was calculated to be the hottest in the past 100,000 years – from ice core and other data proxies. As the World Met...

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May 20, 2024

Amitanshu Verma

Climate accountability: Disclose more, put checks before financing mega projects

In a globalised context, insufficient disclosure of climate risks may diminish a bank’s attractiveness to international investors. The ‘Draft Disclosure Framework on Climate Related Financial Risks’ released by the RBI in February enjoins financial institutions (FIs), such as banks, to provide the p...

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February 14, 2023

Soumya Dutta

Energy profile of G20 countries: are they compliant with necessary Climate actions?

Introduction In recent times, wherever one travels in India, and in all big cities, one is bombarded with the message on the lines that “India under Modi rule has become so great that the G20, or the most powerful country’s grouping in the world, has become awed by and bowed down to Modi-raaj, and h...

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January 9, 2023

Amitanshu Verma

India Pitches for Climate Finance Internationally, But Prioritises ‘Development’ at Home

The year 2022 saw renewed urgency and consistency in India’s pitch to demand ‘climate finance’. In July during the visit of Alok Sharma, president of United Nations Conference of Parties (COP) 26, minister of environment, forest and climate change Bhupender Yadav, emphasised that ‘rich’, ‘developed’...

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August 1, 2022

Anirudh Menon

Ensuring Green projects are truly Green

A Sustainable Transition The World is looking at a transition from energy production using fossil fuels to renewable energy sources i.e, Wind, water and solar (WWS) in order to achieve the carbon net zero targets. India too has committed to achieve the carbon net zero targets by 2070 at COP 26. It h...

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Delhi’s Waste-to-Energy Incinerators Generate the Most Carbon-Intensive Electricity in India at 4.7 Times the National Grid Average, New Report Finds

Climate Justice Must Not Become a Contest Between Neighbours : An Indian climate and ecological-justice perspective to Nepal’s demand

A Tragic Predicament

Indian Banks and Environmental Accountability: A New Year of Complicity and Deception?

With the Earth’s Life Support Systems in Peril :Fossil fuel financing continues unabated.

Climate accountability: Disclose more, put checks before financing mega projects

Energy profile of G20 countries: are they compliant with necessary Climate actions?

India Pitches for Climate Finance Internationally, But Prioritises ‘Development’ at Home

Ensuring Green projects are truly Green

Delhi’s Waste-to-Energy Incinerators Generate the Most Carbon-Intensive Electricity in India at 4.7 Times the National Grid Average, New Report Finds

Climate Justice Must Not Become a Contest Between Neighbours : An Indian climate and ecological-justice perspective to Nepal’s demand

A Tragic Predicament

Indian Banks and Environmental Accountability: A New Year of Complicity and Deception?

With the Earth’s Life Support Systems in Peril :Fossil fuel financing continues unabated.

Climate accountability: Disclose more, put checks before financing mega projects

Energy profile of G20 countries: are they compliant with necessary Climate actions?

India Pitches for Climate Finance Internationally, But Prioritises ‘Development’ at Home

Ensuring Green projects are truly Green