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November 19, 2025
Energy Matters | September 2025
The Telangana State Energy Finance Conference 2025, was conducted on 25 September 2025 at the Centre for Economic and Social Studies. This conference was organized by a coalition of leading civil society organizations, research institutions, and industry bodies. The conference delved into the critic...
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August 15, 2025
Energy Matters | July 2025
Plastic is no longer a matter of convenience — it’s an imposition. It has invaded every aspect of our lives and is causing irreparable harm to our climate, biodiversity, human health, and basic rights. From the moment fossil fuels are extracted to the final dumping of plastic waste, its impact is fe...
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July 11, 2025
Energy Matters | June 2025
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on climate change and human rights, Elisa Morgera, in her latest report, has warned that fossil fuels are at the core of the triple planetary crises of biodiversity loss, toxic pollution and climate change, apart from exacerbating economic inequalities and human...
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May 8, 2025
Energy Matters | April 2025
A report was submitted to the National Green Tribunal on April 15, 2025, by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) on the monitoring and compliance of Waste to Energy (WTE) incinerators in the country. The report has shown that in none of the 21 WTE facilities that incinerate Municipal Solid Was...
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April 22, 2025
Energy Matters | March 2025
On Tuesday, April 8, 2025, US President Donald Trump signed executive orders with the goal to “turbocharge coal mining” in the United States. He promoted coal as a beautiful, clean, reliable, durable, secure, powerful, cheap, incredibly efficient, high-density, and almost indestructible form of ener...
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September 23, 2024
Energy Matters | August 2024
It is concerning to know that the International Finance Corporation (IFC) is proposing to fund 4 waste to energy plants in Gujarat. The investment of about USD 40 million to collectively burn 3,750 tons of garbage per day and release CO2 equivalent to the emissions from about 18,75,000 cars. It will...
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August 12, 2024
Energy Matters | July 2024
On Jul 22, 2024, the Finance Minister, Ms Nirmala Sitharaman presented the union budget for 2024-25. A number of new announcements were made in the energy sector. A new pumped storage policy was announced along with the promise to push for more pumped storage as a way to mitigate intermittency of re...
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June 24, 2024
Energy Matters | June 2024
The Karnataka State Climate Action Plan that was prepared in 2021 has received approval from the central government. The state is all set to implement this plan. This comes at a time when the state recently faced one of the worst droughts in its history and the country has faced one of the hottest s...
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July 15, 2022
RE Matters | June 2022
𝑁𝑒𝑤𝑠 & 𝑉𝑖𝑒𝑤𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑅𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑤𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝐸𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑦 Here is our monthly newsletter on Renewables, RE Matters, from the Centre for Financial Accountability. An extension of CFA’s work to understand and critically analyse the global energy transition from coal to renewables and its implications for India. Download t...
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