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India’s waste – to – energy paradigm

Over the last few decades, the volume and toxicity of waste being produced in India has been increasing exponentially. A...

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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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RE Matters | August 2022

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Oil Security or Oil Dependency?

Mr. Amit Bhandari, in his article “A sovereign wealth fund for oil security” published in the Financial Express on Febru...

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Tata Mundra: Nobel laureate, others ask US apex court to drop immunity to World Bank

Economic, legal, diplomatic and civil society experts – including Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, and ...

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The National Capital’s Experience with Waste to Energy

What are waste to energy plants? Waste to energy plants (WTEs) use waste as a fuel for generating power like other powe...

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Green Hydrogen as India’s Next Clean Energy Source

“We are on the cusp of a hydrogen-driven revolution that can transform green India and energise India. This is nat...

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Are Mega Solar Projects Really the Energy Alternatives We are Looking at?

In 2014, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, launched the Scheme for Development of Solar Parks and Ultra Mega Solar P...

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When comprehensive means cosmetic

India’s pollution metrics fail to capture the complex reality of environmental degradation. The city is fine, ...

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It’s not just an energy issue; it’s also a justice issue

15 years back power sector witnessed a huge expansion. Between 2005 and 2011, thermal projects with 700 GW were given ei...

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March 9, 2023

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India’s waste – to – energy paradigm

Over the last few decades, the volume and toxicity of waste being produced in India has been increasing exponentially. A major cause has been the increased use and dispose of more manufactured materials by industrialised societies than their predecessors and less-industrialised societies. Further, r...

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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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September 8, 2022

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RE Matters | August 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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March 21, 2024

Swathi Seshadri

Oil Security or Oil Dependency?

Mr. Amit Bhandari, in his article “A sovereign wealth fund for oil security” published in the Financial Express on February 1, 2022 suggests that despite the push for renewable energy and electric vehicles, the world will still be dependent on oil, natural gas and coal to fulfil its energy requireme...

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February 22, 2022

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Tata Mundra: Nobel laureate, others ask US apex court to drop immunity to World Bank

Economic, legal, diplomatic and civil society experts – including Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, and former Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank – have urged the United States Supreme Court to go back to the case Budha Ismail Jam, et al v. IFC , (Tata Mundra case) ...

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October 27, 2023

Ashi Datta

The National Capital’s Experience with Waste to Energy

What are waste to energy plants? Waste to energy plants (WTEs) use waste as a fuel for generating power like other power stations use coal, oil or natural gas. They typically burn mixed municipal solid waste to produce steam in a boiler that is used to generate electricity. Municipal Solid waste i...

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October 29, 2021

Tanya Thomas

Green Hydrogen as India’s Next Clean Energy Source

“We are on the cusp of a hydrogen-driven revolution that can transform green India and energise India. This is nation-building at its best.” Billionaire Gautam Adani, who runs a ports-to-power corporate empire that rules much of India’s infrastructure landscape, said in his TiE Sus...

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October 5, 2021

Anuradha Munshi

Are Mega Solar Projects Really the Energy Alternatives We are Looking at?

In 2014, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, launched the Scheme for Development of Solar Parks and Ultra Mega Solar Power Projects to meet some of the targets for building large-scale solar-power plants in India. Under this scheme, there are 34 large-scale, grid-connected solar parks of total cap...

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March 27, 2020

ARITRA BHATTACHARYA

When comprehensive means cosmetic

India’s pollution metrics fail to capture the complex reality of environmental degradation. The city is fine, really. Right outside the railway station, beneath the board that says Asansol Junction, an LED panel displays the day’s air quality. Mostly, it reads ‘moderately polluted’ or ‘poo...

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January 24, 2020

Joe Athialy

It’s not just an energy issue; it’s also a justice issue

15 years back power sector witnessed a huge expansion. Between 2005 and 2011, thermal projects with 700 GW were given either TOR or EC by the government in around 570 projects, with estimated investments of Rs. 35 trillion. 15 years later, the realisation of those projects are less than 50%, leaving...

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India’s waste – to – energy paradigm

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

RE Matters | August 2022

Oil Security or Oil Dependency?

Tata Mundra: Nobel laureate, others ask US apex court to drop immunity to World Bank

The National Capital’s Experience with Waste to Energy

Green Hydrogen as India’s Next Clean Energy Source

Are Mega Solar Projects Really the Energy Alternatives We are Looking at?

When comprehensive means cosmetic

It’s not just an energy issue; it’s also a justice issue

India’s waste – to – energy paradigm

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

RE Matters | August 2022

Oil Security or Oil Dependency?

Tata Mundra: Nobel laureate, others ask US apex court to drop immunity to World Bank

The National Capital’s Experience with Waste to Energy

Green Hydrogen as India’s Next Clean Energy Source

Are Mega Solar Projects Really the Energy Alternatives We are Looking at?

When comprehensive means cosmetic

It’s not just an energy issue; it’s also a justice issue