{"id":457547,"date":"2021-12-21T11:21:52","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T05:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=457547"},"modified":"2021-12-21T11:21:52","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T05:51:52","slug":"glasgow-pact-not-mandating-coal-phase-down-union-coal-minister-pralhad-joshi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/glasgow-pact-not-mandating-coal-phase-down-union-coal-minister-pralhad-joshi\/","title":{"rendered":"Glasgow pact \u2018not mandating\u2019 coal phase-down: Union coal minister Pralhad Joshi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stating that the Glasgow Climate Pact does not mandate the phase down of coal power, \u201cand it is not setting any timelines\u201d for the same, Union coal minister Pralhad Joshi said on Monday that \u201cdespite the push for renewables, the country will require base load capacity of coal-based generation for stability and also for energy security\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Pointing out that the agreement only calls upon parties to accelerate efforts towards the phase down of unabated coal power in line with national circumstances and recognising the need for support towards a just transition,\u201d in a written reply to the Parliament the minister said that \u201cthe pace of transition to cleaner energy sources in India is to be viewed in the light of national circumstances, and principle of common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities, the transfer of climate finance and low cost climate technologies\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stating that the Glasgow Climate Pact does not mandate the phase down of coal power, \u201cand it is not setting any timelines\u201d for the same, Union coal minister Pralhad Joshi said on Monday that \u201cdespite the push for renewables, the country will require base load capacity of coal-based generation for stability and also for energy security\u201d. Pointing out that the agreement only calls upon parties to accelerate efforts towards the phase down of unabated coal power in line with national circumstances and recognising the need for support towards a just transition,\u201d in a written reply to the Parliament the minister [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[198,130,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457547","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}