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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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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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CFA bats for enhanced climate accountability measures in RBI’s draft norms

Says clarity and specificity are needed to ensure effective implementation and compliance with disclosure requirements. ...

Coverage Indian Economy

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State of Finance in India Report 2023

The second edition of the State of Finance in India Report was released in November 2023. It is a first of its kind tha...

General Indian Economy Publications

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Environmental & social responsibility of financial institutions must go beyond green initiatives

Most Indian banks and financial institutions do not have any environmental and social safeguard mechanisms. Adding to it...

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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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“India can Achieve Net-Zero By 2047”: Experts

Sectoral experts, academics and climate activists deliberate on multiple issues related to Energy and Finance at the 4th...

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The Hidden Costs of Waste Incineration for Women

Gender mainstreaming (the process of assessing the implications for women and men of any planned action, including legis...

Energy General Renewable

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Gender and Energy

India’s commitments at the 26th Conference of Parties of the United Nations Convention on Climate Change (COP 26) held i...

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PFC was the sole coal financier in 2020 | Press Release

SBI’s project finance loans to RE projects increased by 334% New Delhi, December 14, 2021: Coal vs Renewables Fina...

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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 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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May 6, 2024

Business Standard

CFA bats for enhanced climate accountability measures in RBI’s draft norms

Says clarity and specificity are needed to ensure effective implementation and compliance with disclosure requirements. The Centre for Financial Accountability (CFA) has urged the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to broaden its understanding of climate risk, increase the level of disclosures by financial...

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April 4, 2024

CFA Admin

State of Finance in India Report 2023

The second edition of the State of Finance in India Report was released in November 2023. It is a first of its kind that expands the domain of finance and economics beyond the confines of ivory tower experts. It invites writings from a cross section of academics, policy makers, activists, social pr...

General Indian Economy Publications

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April 27, 2023

Amitanshu Verma

Environmental & social responsibility of financial institutions must go beyond green initiatives

Most Indian banks and financial institutions do not have any environmental and social safeguard mechanisms. Adding to its push for sustainable financing, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced the regulatory framework for ‘green deposits’ earlier this month. ‘Green deposits’ are fixed deposits t...

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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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December 12, 2022

Shivam Dwivedi

“India can Achieve Net-Zero By 2047”: Experts

Sectoral experts, academics and climate activists deliberate on multiple issues related to Energy and Finance at the 4th annual Energy Finance Conference India, 2022 organised at IIT-Madras, Centre for Financial Accountability, Indo-German Center for Sustainability and Climate Trends. “India should ...

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March 24, 2022

Ashi Datta

The Hidden Costs of Waste Incineration for Women

Gender mainstreaming (the process of assessing the implications for women and men of any planned action, including legislation, policies or programmes, in all areas and at all levels) became popular in several international institutions, including financial institutions like the Inter-American Devel...

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February 28, 2022

Bhargavi S. Rao

Gender and Energy

India’s commitments at the 26th Conference of Parties of the United Nations Convention on Climate Change (COP 26) held in Glasgow set clear targets for 2030: increasing non fossil fuel energy capacity to 500 GW, to draw 50 % of the country’s energy requirements from renewable sources and reduce tota...

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May 15, 2024

CFA Admin

PFC was the sole coal financier in 2020 | Press Release

SBI’s project finance loans to RE projects increased by 334% New Delhi, December 14, 2021: Coal vs Renewables Financial Analysis 2020 identifies PFC, and its subsidiary REC, as the sole state-owned financial institutions that provided project financing to coal power projects in 2020. The fourt...

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

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

CFA bats for enhanced climate accountability measures in RBI’s draft norms

State of Finance in India Report 2023

Environmental & social responsibility of financial institutions must go beyond green initiatives

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

“India can Achieve Net-Zero By 2047”: Experts

The Hidden Costs of Waste Incineration for Women

Gender and Energy

PFC was the sole coal financier in 2020 | Press Release

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

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

CFA bats for enhanced climate accountability measures in RBI’s draft norms

State of Finance in India Report 2023

Environmental & social responsibility of financial institutions must go beyond green initiatives

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

“India can Achieve Net-Zero By 2047”: Experts

The Hidden Costs of Waste Incineration for Women

Gender and Energy

PFC was the sole coal financier in 2020 | Press Release