NEW DELHI: India cannot afford to dump coal in a jiffy as it is the cheapest fuel available in abundance domestically for fuelling the level of economic growth needed to lift hundreds of millions out of poverty.
\nThose who described the Glasgow declaration a \u201ccop out\u201d after the words \u201cphase out\u201d were replaced with \u201cphase down\u201d for coal at New Delhi\u2019s insistence, ignore the fact that the alternatives do not work for India, which is making effort to meet climate commitment by addressing emissions through a combination of measures at various levels.
\nChina is the world\u2019s biggest coal consumer, followed by India and the US. Coal fires 53% of India\u2019s total generation capacity. In 2019, Central Electricity Authority data shows India produced 999 TWh (terawatt hour or trillion units) of power, while, according to International Energy Agency (IEA), China produced 4,876 TWh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NEW DELHI: India cannot afford to dump coal in a jiffy as it is the cheapest fuel available in abundance domestically for fuelling the level of economic growth needed to lift hundreds of millions out of poverty. Those who described the Glasgow declaration a \u201ccop out\u201d after the words \u201cphase out\u201d were replaced with \u201cphase down\u201d for coal at New Delhi\u2019s insistence, ignore the fact that the alternatives do not work for India, which is making effort to meet climate commitment by addressing emissions through a combination of measures at various levels. China is the world\u2019s biggest coal consumer, followed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450191","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}