President Obama and India's Prime Minister Modi are best of friends - aren't they? So how come the US took India to the WTO's trade court - and just won a resounding victory? And why isn't India challenging the US's own discriminatory solar subsidies? It's because of the money, writes Charles Pierson. And poor India has no choice but to play by Washington's rules.
… Crushed: the US and the WTO demolish India's solar energy ambitions Charles Pierson | 5th September 2015 News India USA Energy Solar Finance Trade … President Obama and India's Prime Minister Modi are best of …
President Obama will shortly be on his way to India. In this Open Letter, Vandana Shiva invites him to join in securing the essential human freedoms to seeds and food - and to set aside any plans to pressure India into changing its laws to allow the corporate domination of life.
… 23rd January 2015 Comment Food Farming Seeds India USA Human Rights Law … President Obama will shortly be on his way to India. In this Open Letter, Vandana Shiva … food - and to set aside any plans to pressure India into changing its laws to allow the …
India's renewable power capacity is set to reach 170GW by 2022, write Areeba Hamid & Oliver Tickell - reducing power shortages and bringing electricity to off-grid of rural communities for the first time. But it may also have an unintended consequence - cutting off investment in India's troubled coal sector as prospects for future profitability evaporate..
… Renewables to transform India's energy landscape in seven years Areeba … Oliver Tickell | 20th February 2015 News India Energy Coal Fossil Fuels Renewables Solar Finance China solar-power-india-cut.jpg India's renewable power capacity …
India celebrates its Independence Day today, writes Colin Todhunter. But the highly visible system of British colonial dominance has been replaced by a new imperial hegemony: the invisible, systemic rule of transnational capital, enforced by global institutions like the World Bank, while US-based global agribusiness corporations have stepped into the boots of the former East India Company.
… On Independence Day, India's new rulers are the World Bank, IMF, … Colin Todhunter | 15th August 2016 News India Farming Seeds GMOs Corporations Finance yoke-india-cut.jpg India celebrates its …
India has a substantial part to play in a climate deal, but failing to acknowledge historical responsibility is akin to giving the US 'squatters' rights' to the atmosphere
… Comment Climate Change Politics And Economics India Copenhagen Growth ccountsgif.gif India has a substantial part to play in a … topic for the world's 'Climaterati'. But as India's Prime Minister makes his inaugural …
India's decision to release GMO cotton seeds that incorporate genes for Bt toxins into indigenous 'desi' varieties threatens disaster for the country's small and organic cotton farmers, writes Vandana Shiva. The danger is that the GMO characteristics will spread rapidly into the gene pool, contaminating India's unique heritage of cotton seed diversity.
… Shiva | 9th September 2015 News GMOs Farming India weeding-cotton-s-india-cut.jpg India's decision to release GMO cotton seeds …
After two decades of neoliberalism, India's magnates and corporations are profiting as never before, writes Colin Todhunter. But the entire economic edifice is built on the dispossession of the poor, locked into debt servitude, and ever rising income inequality. Prime Minister Modi's latest move, 'demonetization', is yet another example of the state stealing from the poor to give to the obscenely rich.
… India's 'economic miracle' is built on debt, … Colin Todhunter | 30th November 2016 Comment India Corporations Finance Farming Politics … After two decades of neoliberalism, India's magnates and corporations are …
As negotiators haggle in Copenhagen over the levels of financial assistance to be provided to less-industrialised nations, Anna Da Costa highlights the difference this money could make
… Solar India: why climate finance is so important … by rumors, leaks , and high-level approvals , India formally launched its national solar mission, known as 'Solar India', in late November. The policy confirms …
Ahead of the release of the World Bank's revised energy strategy, the Ecologist speaks to sustainable development advocate Srinivas Krishnaswamy about why despite huge gigawatt power projects, 45 per cent of India's households still lack electricity
… Why India doesn't need World Bank energy funding … Climate Change & Energy World Bank Coal India Sustainable Development Biogas Solar … huge gigawatt power projects, 45 per cent of India's households still lack electricity Does …
Corporations in India can explore shale gas reserves without obtaining environmental clearances.
… Fracking in India Shashikant Yadav | 14th August 2020 | News India Fracking Natural Resources Water Water … of fracking sites in America Corporations in India can explore shale gas reserves without …
Greenpeace India has barely three weeks left to fight for its survival following a broad government crackdown on civil society. The green NGO has been left with funds for staff salaries and office costs that will last no later than 1st June.
… Greenpeace India faces closure in weeks The Ecologist | 7th May 2015 News India Politics Development Law greenpeace-india-demo-cut.jpg Greenpeace India has barely …
India's economy is hindered by the lack of sustainable and reliable electricity, writes Michael Jacob. But the new government has a plan to bring 24/7 power to every citizen, based on grid renewal, subsidy cuts, and a big rollout of ever-cheaper solar power generation.
… Solar power to the fore in India's energy revolution Michael Jacob | 12th August 2014 News India Energy Renewables Solar Economy dhursar-solar-power-india-cut.jpg India's economy is hindered by …
India's food system, essentially clean just a generation ago, has been comprehensively contaminated with sugar, bad fats, synthetic additives, GMOs and pesticides under the country's neoliberal 'great leap forwards', writes Colin Todhunter. The result? a surge in obesity, diabetes and cancer incidence, but no let-up in the under-nutrition of those too poor to join in the over-consumption.
… India: obesity, malnutrition and the … | 4th April 2016 Comment Food Farming India Trade GMOs Health Pesticides Toxics mcdonalds-india-cut.jpg India's food system, essentially …
Global oilseed, agribusiness and biotech corporations are engaged in a long term attack on India's local cooking oil producers, writes Colin Todhunter. In just 20 years they have reduced India from self-sufficiency in cooking oil to importing half its needs. Now the government's unlawful attempts to impose GM mustard seed threaten to wipe out a crop at the root of Indian food and farming traditions.
… Beware the GMO Trojan horse! Indian food and farming are under attack Colin Todhunter | 11th February 2016 News India Food Farming Culture GMOs Corporations Regulation Law The Land india-mustard-cut.jpg Global oilseed, …
Growth in India's carbon emissions could be nearly halved by the year 2030 through the use of known practices and technologies, according to a new report from McKinsey & Company
… India could halve emissions growth...but at a … September 2009 Comment Climate Change Energy India Copenhagen Mckinsey Worldwatch delhi.jpg Growth in India's carbon emissions could be nearly …
Seventeen or more secret applications have been made to India's GMO regulators for trials and release of GM crops including rice, wheat, chickpeas, brinjal and mustard, write Colin Todhunter & Oliver Tickell. In a violation of the law regulators have released no information about the applications, raising fears that India's first GMOs will be released with no health, safety or environmental testing.
… Rice, wheat, mustard ... India drives forward first GMO crops under … Oliver Tickell | 3rd November 2015 News India GMOs Farming Food india-mustard-field-cut.jpg Seventeen or more …
Greenpeace India is to fight on for another month after a surge of support from allies, new donors and staff, who have pledged to work through June for no pay after the Indian government blocked its bank accounts.
… Support surge gives Greenpeace India new lease of life The Ecologist | 21st May 2015 News India Law Human Rights Campaigning incredible-india-cut.jpg Greenpeace India is to fight on …
Under the 'Incredible India' brand lurk millions of fast-growing piles of decomposing waste, reports Almudena Serpis. As they await removal, polluting waters and stinking under the tropical sun, India is rapidy becoming the world's biggest rubbish dump.
… India - buried under stinking rubbish heaps … Almudena Serpis | 17th December 2013 News India Waste Pollution india-waste-cow.png Under the 'Incredible …
India is set to embark on the country's largest solar endeavour - increasing solar capacity from 3 megawatts to 20 gigawatts by 2020
… India's plan for a solar power revolution Anna … Climate Change And Energy Solar Power India National Action Plan On Climate Change Prime Minister Manmohan Singh indiasolarplan.jpg India is set to embark on …
Prime Minister Modi's government has frozen the bank accounts of Greenpeace India, writes Praful Bidwai - provoking widespread protest from the environment and civil rights community. It's all part of a wider campaign against 'anti-national' movements that challenge India's development policies based on the aggressive exploitation of coal, minerals, big hydro and nuclear power.
… Indian government sanctions Greenpeace to send … message Praful Bidwai | 23rd April 2015 News India Law Finance Development Coal Politics coal-india-hyderabad-cut.jpg Prime Minister Modi's …
The era of mass consumption has reached India, bringing about a frenzy of over-consumption, pollution and ecological havoc. But so long as there's money to be made, asks Subhankar Banerjee, why worry about climate change?
… Banerjee | 18th March 2014 Comment USA India Energy Climate Change Consumerism india-shopping.png The era of mass consumption has reached India, bringing about a frenzy of …
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has found India's huge solar initiative 'guilty' of breaking trade rules, write Dipti Bhatnagar & Sam Cossar-Gilbert, because it gives domestic manufacturers a small 10% quota for the supply of panels, leaving up to 90% for foreign competitors. It's a warning for perils of the entire WTO system, and of even harsher trade rules like those in TPP, TTIP and CETA.
… World Trade Organisation smashes India's solar panels industry Dipti Bhatnagar … | 28th February 2016 News Energy Solar India Economics WTO Trade Agreement solar panels india.jpg The World Trade Organisation (WTO) …
Grassroots opposition is mounting in India as new coal projects displace communities and destroy ancient forests.
… Demand for coal continues to grow in India Rabiya Jaffery | 9th October 2019 News International India Uttar Pradesh Coal Desfrorestation … Grassroots opposition is mounting in India as new coal projects displace …
India made no promises to cut its CO2 emissions from coal power stations, writes Nivedita Khandekar, and refused to reveal its ambitions for the Paris climate talks - but Obama promised US support for its plans to roll out 100GW of solar power.
… 100GW solar support in US-India climate talks, but no emissions cuts … Nivedita Khandekar | 27th January 2015 News India USA Climate Change Renewables Solar Nuclear modi-obama-cut.jpg India made no promises to cut its CO2 …