{"id":386032,"date":"2020-11-25T09:24:11","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T03:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=386032"},"modified":"2020-11-25T11:31:38","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T06:01:38","slug":"indias-love-affair-with-coal-cools-as-pressure-grows-on-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indias-love-affair-with-coal-cools-as-pressure-grows-on-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s love affair with coal cools as pressure grows on sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Funding for coal projects in India has plunged for the second straight year, new figures showed Tuesday, as the world&#8217;s second biggest coal importer weans itself off the dirty fuel.<\/p>\n<p>Research was released showing a drop in investment days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi reaffirmed the country&#8217;s commitment to exceeding its targets under the Paris climate agreement.<\/p>\n<p>India has the world&#8217;s fourth-largest reserves of the fossil fuel and its cities are often shrouded in coal-induced smog, but Modi on Sunday told a virtual G20 summit that the South Asian giant was &#8220;exceeding&#8221; its targets.<\/p>\n<p>Coal financing dropped 82 per centlast year following a 90-per centdecline in 2018, the Delhi-based Centre for Financial Accountability said in a report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funding for coal projects in India has plunged for the second straight year, new figures showed Tuesday, as the world&#8217;s second biggest coal importer weans itself off the dirty fuel. Research was released showing a drop in investment days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi reaffirmed the country&#8217;s commitment to exceeding its targets under the Paris climate agreement. India has the world&#8217;s fourth-largest reserves of the fossil fuel and its cities are often shrouded in coal-induced smog, but Modi on Sunday told a virtual G20 summit that the South Asian giant was &#8220;exceeding&#8221; its targets. Coal financing dropped 82 per centlast [&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":[175,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386032","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=386032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}