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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...

The Climate Cost of Burning Waste

The carbon intensity of waste-to-energy incinerators in Delhi, and why incinerators should not be funded as climate acti...

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Barking up the wrong tree : A critique of the misdirected and wasteful push for Carbon Capture in the Budget

Background : The still rising global green house gases emissions (the 2025 global CO2 emissions of an estimated 38.1 bil...

Energy General National Finance Post-Budget Series 2026 Union Budget

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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...

Climate Finance Energy General

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Putting just transition at the heart of solar power: A case study on India

India has set ambitious targets for renewable energy (RE). The Government of India set an ambitious target in 2015 of...

Coverage General Publications Renewable

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Gujarat: 174 Civil Society Outfits Urge World Bank to Reject Loan for Harmful Waste-to-Energy Projects

A coalition of 174 civil society organisations, networks, and activists has written to the World Bank’s board of directo...

Coverage WTE(Waste to Energy)

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Climate Crisis and India’s Renewable Electricity Targets 2030: Can these be achieved with no major land conflicts?

Carbon Dioxide/ GHGs and Climate Chaos: The latest rounds of severe heat waves, floods and storms brought to focus the s...

Energy General Renewable

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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October 28, 2026

Chythenyen Devika Kulasekaran, Anwesha Maharana, Soutrik Goswami

The Climate Cost of Burning Waste

The carbon intensity of waste-to-energy incinerators in Delhi, and why incinerators should not be funded as climate action. Waste-to-energy (WTE) incineration is increasingly promoted as a way to address three problems at once: reduce the volume of waste sent to landfills, generate electricity, and ...

General Publications WTE(Waste to Energy)

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September 16, 2026

Soumya Dutta

Barking up the wrong tree : A critique of the misdirected and wasteful push for Carbon Capture in the Budget

Background : The still rising global green house gases emissions (the 2025 global CO2 emissions of an estimated 38.1 billion tons was 1.1% higher than 2024 emissions, which itself was 0.8% higher than 2023 emissions) are driving us towards a serious climate change crisis. An urgent shift of all econ...

Energy General National Finance Post-Budget Series 2026 Union Budget

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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...

Climate Finance Energy General

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October 25, 2024

Anitha Sampath

Putting just transition at the heart of solar power: A case study on India

India has set ambitious targets for renewable energy (RE). The Government of India set an ambitious target in 2015 of installing 175GW of renewable energy capacity by 2022. Since then, as part of the Paris Agreement, India has set a target to install 500GW of RE capacity by 2030. RE has a key rol...

Coverage General Publications Renewable

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September 23, 2024

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Gujarat: 174 Civil Society Outfits Urge World Bank to Reject Loan for Harmful Waste-to-Energy Projects

A coalition of 174 civil society organisations, networks, and activists has written to the World Bank’s board of directors, urging them to reject funding for four waste-to-energy (WTE) incineration projects proposed by Abellon Clean Energy Limited (ACEL) in Rajkot, Vadodara, Ahmedabad, and Jamnagar ...

Coverage WTE(Waste to Energy)

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June 16, 2024

Soumya Dutta

Climate Crisis and India’s Renewable Electricity Targets 2030: Can these be achieved with no major land conflicts?

Carbon Dioxide/ GHGs and Climate Chaos: The latest rounds of severe heat waves, floods and storms brought to focus the severity of the looming climate crisis and the urgency of a wide variety of necessary climate actions. It is also well established that the primary driver of the global climate cris...

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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

The Climate Cost of Burning Waste

Barking up the wrong tree : A critique of the misdirected and wasteful push for Carbon Capture in the Budget

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

Putting just transition at the heart of solar power: A case study on India

Gujarat: 174 Civil Society Outfits Urge World Bank to Reject Loan for Harmful Waste-to-Energy Projects

Climate Crisis and India’s Renewable Electricity Targets 2030: Can these be achieved with no major land conflicts?

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

The Climate Cost of Burning Waste

Barking up the wrong tree : A critique of the misdirected and wasteful push for Carbon Capture in the Budget

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

Putting just transition at the heart of solar power: A case study on India

Gujarat: 174 Civil Society Outfits Urge World Bank to Reject Loan for Harmful Waste-to-Energy Projects

Climate Crisis and India’s Renewable Electricity Targets 2030: Can these be achieved with no major land conflicts?