{"id":370627,"date":"2020-08-29T09:50:40","date_gmt":"2020-08-29T04:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=370627"},"modified":"2020-08-29T10:17:07","modified_gmt":"2020-08-29T04:47:07","slug":"un-secretary-general-urges-india-to-phase-out-coal-and-embrace-renewable-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/un-secretary-general-urges-india-to-phase-out-coal-and-embrace-renewable-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Secretary General urges India to phase out coal and embrace renewable energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UN Secretary General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres today called on the Indian government to move away from coal and other fossil fuel-based economic growth and fully embrace renewable energy (RE). Guterres\u2019s remarks were a part of his Darbari Seth Memorial Lecture speech, delivered online at The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI). He cautioned that new coal auctions, in a bid to kick-start a post-covid economic recovery, would be counterproductive, since coal has no future economic viability. It would rather lead to greater pollution, add to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and place a burden on India\u2019s healthcare system. Guterres praised India\u2019s achievements in RE investments and the country\u2019s 2030 target of increasing its share of RE capacity to 500 gigawatts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN Secretary General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres today called on the Indian government to move away from coal and other fossil fuel-based economic growth and fully embrace renewable energy (RE). Guterres\u2019s remarks were a part of his Darbari Seth Memorial Lecture speech, delivered online at The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI). He cautioned that new coal auctions, in a bid to kick-start a post-covid economic recovery, would be counterproductive, since coal has no future economic viability. It would rather lead to greater pollution, add to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and place a burden on India\u2019s healthcare system. Guterres praised India\u2019s achievements in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[190,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}