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How Gujarat Fishermen Won US Top Court Ruling Against Global Funding Agency

The case, which now goes back to a US district court, relates to alleged pollution caused by a Gujarat-based power plant...

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Banks Invested $1.9 trillion On Fossil Fuels Since The Paris Agreement

Executive summary from the report Banking on Climate Change, Fossil Fuel Finance Report Card 2019. The report is pre...

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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...

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Wake Up World Bank

Absolute immunity leads to impunity, and that foments lack of transparency and the reluctance to be held accountable Ove...

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Press Release Peoples Movements and CSOs Welcome the US Supreme Court’s Decision on the Absolute Immunity of the IFIs

For Immediate Release Peoples Movements and Civil Society Organisations Welcome the US Supreme Court’s Decision on the...

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MASS Welcomes The US Supreme Court’s Decision To End The Immunity Of The World Bank Group

This is the first time the US Supreme Court has addressed the scope of international organisations’ immunity February 28...

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Press Release: Historic Supreme Court Win: WB Group Is Not Above The Law

For Immediate Release February 27, 2019 New Delhi: In a historic 7-1 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court decided in Jam ...

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Big Business Captured the Negotiations in Katowice

The Paris Rulebook (renamed the ‘Katowice Rulebook’ by many), the outcome of 24th Conference of Parties to the United Na...

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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...

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विशेष रिपोर्ट: एनटीपीसी का कड़वा सच

नेशनल थर्मल पाॅवर काॅरपोरेशन (एनटीपीसी) भारत के चार ‘‘नवरत्नों‘‘ में से एक होने के साथ, एक “फार्च्यून 500″ क...

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April 10, 2019

The Indian Express

How Gujarat Fishermen Won US Top Court Ruling Against Global Funding Agency

The case, which now goes back to a US district court, relates to alleged pollution caused by a Gujarat-based power plant partly funded by IFC. On February 27, the US Supreme Court ruled in favour of a group of fishermen and a Gujarat village panchayat in a suit against the US-headquartered Internati...

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April 25, 2019

CFA Admin

Banks Invested $1.9 trillion On Fossil Fuels Since The Paris Agreement

Executive summary from the report Banking on Climate Change, Fossil Fuel Finance Report Card 2019. The report is prepared by Rainforests Action Network, BankTrack, Sierra Club, Oil Change, Indigenous Environmental Network, Honour The Earth. This year, 163 organisations, including Centre for Fina...

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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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March 6, 2019

Joe Athialy

Wake Up World Bank

Absolute immunity leads to impunity, and that foments lack of transparency and the reluctance to be held accountable Over three decades back, it looked quite impossible to ask the World Bank to review a project approved by them, and to have a complaint mechanism inside the Bank. Yet, the struggle of...

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March 1, 2019

CFA Admin

Press Release Peoples Movements and CSOs Welcome the US Supreme Court’s Decision on the Absolute Immunity of the IFIs

For Immediate Release Peoples Movements and Civil Society Organisations Welcome the US Supreme Court’s Decision on the Absolute Immunity of the IFIs March 1, 2019, New Delhi:Peoples movements and civil society organisations from across India welcomes the US Supreme Court’s landmark judgement that...

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March 2, 2019

MASS

MASS Welcomes The US Supreme Court’s Decision To End The Immunity Of The World Bank Group

This is the first time the US Supreme Court has addressed the scope of international organisations’ immunity February 28, 2019, Mundra, Gujarat: Machimar Adhikar Sangharsh Sangathan (MASS) and the affected communities by the Tata Mundra Ultra Mega Project welcomes the historic decision of the US sup...

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March 2, 2019

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Press Release: Historic Supreme Court Win: WB Group Is Not Above The Law

For Immediate Release February 27, 2019 New Delhi: In a historic 7-1 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court decided in Jam v. IFC that international organizations like the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank Group do not enjoy absolute immunity. The Court’s decision marks a defining mom...

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April 25, 2019

Souparna Lahiri

Big Business Captured the Negotiations in Katowice

The Paris Rulebook (renamed the ‘Katowice Rulebook’ by many), the outcome of 24th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC COP24), exposes the perils of a pledge-and-review system. In Katowice, an already weak agreement was further diluted while nego...

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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...

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February 18, 2019

Nishank

विशेष रिपोर्ट: एनटीपीसी का कड़वा सच

नेशनल थर्मल पाॅवर काॅरपोरेशन (एनटीपीसी) भारत के चार ‘‘नवरत्नों‘‘ में से एक होने के साथ, एक “फार्च्यून 500″ कंपनी भी है। भारत के विकास में एनटीपीसी ने चार दशकों से ऊपर एक अहम् भूमिका अदा की है। पश्चिमी देशों में तय किया गया विकास का ढांचा पूर्ण रूप से ऊर्जा पर निर्भर है और जिसने विगत वर्ष...

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How Gujarat Fishermen Won US Top Court Ruling Against Global Funding Agency

Banks Invested $1.9 trillion On Fossil Fuels Since The Paris Agreement

Cut Out Taking Those Shortcuts

Wake Up World Bank

Press Release Peoples Movements and CSOs Welcome the US Supreme Court’s Decision on the Absolute Immunity of the IFIs

MASS Welcomes The US Supreme Court’s Decision To End The Immunity Of The World Bank Group

Press Release: Historic Supreme Court Win: WB Group Is Not Above The Law

Big Business Captured the Negotiations in Katowice

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

विशेष रिपोर्ट: एनटीपीसी का कड़वा सच

How Gujarat Fishermen Won US Top Court Ruling Against Global Funding Agency

Banks Invested $1.9 trillion On Fossil Fuels Since The Paris Agreement

Cut Out Taking Those Shortcuts

Wake Up World Bank

Press Release Peoples Movements and CSOs Welcome the US Supreme Court’s Decision on the Absolute Immunity of the IFIs

MASS Welcomes The US Supreme Court’s Decision To End The Immunity Of The World Bank Group

Press Release: Historic Supreme Court Win: WB Group Is Not Above The Law

Big Business Captured the Negotiations in Katowice

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

विशेष रिपोर्ट: एनटीपीसी का कड़वा सच

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“Climate change”

How Gujarat Fishermen Won US Top Court Ruling Against Global Funding Agency

Banks Invested $1.9 trillion On Fossil Fuels Since The Paris Agreement

Cut Out Taking Those Shortcuts

Wake Up World Bank

Press Release Peoples Movements and CSOs Welcome the US Supreme Court’s Decision on the Absolute Immunity of the IFIs

MASS Welcomes The US Supreme Court’s Decision To End The Immunity Of The World Bank Group

Press Release: Historic Supreme Court Win: WB Group Is Not Above The Law

Big Business Captured the Negotiations in Katowice

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

विशेष रिपोर्ट: एनटीपीसी का कड़वा सच

How Gujarat Fishermen Won US Top Court Ruling Against Global Funding Agency

Banks Invested $1.9 trillion On Fossil Fuels Since The Paris Agreement

Cut Out Taking Those Shortcuts

Wake Up World Bank

Press Release Peoples Movements and CSOs Welcome the US Supreme Court’s Decision on the Absolute Immunity of the IFIs

MASS Welcomes The US Supreme Court’s Decision To End The Immunity Of The World Bank Group

Press Release: Historic Supreme Court Win: WB Group Is Not Above The Law

Big Business Captured the Negotiations in Katowice

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

विशेष रिपोर्ट: एनटीपीसी का कड़वा सच