It’s a test that aims to transform a nation marked by deep economic inequality and heavily polluting coal power to one where families drive electric scooters and cool their homes with the sun’s energy. And it could determine whether global temperatures exceed limits beyond which climate impacts become increasingly disastrous.
The South Asian nation is currently the world’s third-largest emitter of planet-warming pollution after China and the United States, and its demand for energy is expected to grow faster than any other country over the next two decades. It will need to keep emissions in check at the same time that it works to pull millions of people out of poverty and build up its cities and industries — activities where emissions cuts are particularly tough to achieve.
Searching for a middle ground India is a relative newcomer to the club of major emitters. Its emissions have ratcheted up over the past two decades alongside rapid economic growth. The coal-dependent country has set ambitious goals for renewable energy development: 500 gigawatts of renewable energy capacity by 2030, or about half of its electricity.
As chair of this year’s Group of 20 major economies, India plans to center discussions on climate finance and energy security. It could also help shape energy transition talks by including its approach toward energy consumption in those discussions, the IEA analysis says. Challenges abound Because India's growth is angled upward, it can’t just replace its current energy systems with renewables, analysts say. It will need to multiply its generation. That’s different from industrialized countries where energy demand is largely flat or falling.
The move was India’s way of saying it would ramp down coal when the developed world was ready to phase down its dominant sources of power: gas and oil, Pai said.
Timely warning
It will fail, because the goals are unrealistic and would require 3rd world countries to condemn a large percentage of their population to die, so they can lower their energy consumption to almost nothing.
They are smart. They have nuclear
We need to concentrate our efforts scrubbing co2 out of the atmosphere. India and China will never go green
And if it follows climate cultists hundreds of thousands of people will starve to death.
India does not care and never will.
GREAT! Hopefully we can all move forward to a far better world with warmer temperatures and not rely on unsustainable, toxic lithium. Warmer temperatures = biodiversity. (And maybe ask, like, a real scientist, but there is no such thing as fossil fuel.)
Just read a report that, at least in the US, it is cheaper to build and operate renewable energy projects than it is just to operate over 95% of the US coal fired plants. I hope India researches this.
Unless you do carbon capture.
The carbon scam is falling apart and that a good thing . Indians deserve to create the nation of their dreams and lift all 1.2 billion of the 1.5 billion out of poverty
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