{"id":473887,"date":"2022-03-07T17:05:35","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T11:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=473887"},"modified":"2022-03-07T17:05:35","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T11:35:35","slug":"coal-india-aims-to-be-net-zero-carbon-emitter-in-three-or-four-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/coal-india-aims-to-be-net-zero-carbon-emitter-in-three-or-four-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Coal India aims to be net-zero carbon emitter in three or four years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State-run Coal India, the world&#8217;s largest miner of the fuel by output, plans to become a net-zero carbon emitter in three to four years, its chairman, Pramod Agrawal, said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The firm&#8217;s foray into renewable energy, greater internal energy efficiency, cleaner transport and efforts to boost green cover at all sites are expected to contribute to the net-zero target, Agrawal told an industry gathering.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We plan that maybe in the next three to four years, we should become a net-zero company,&#8221; Agrawal said in a presentation to the 15th Indian Coal Markets Conference.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have a lot of land, we can install solar parks in our area of operations and use that energy, and that would help us in a big way to become a net-zero company.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Agrawal said coal users, such as thermal power stations, were bigger contributors to rising carbon emissions, adding that Coal India was often unfairly blamed even though it used less energy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we want a system in which environmental protection happens, we have to see how we can utilise coal efficiently,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State-run Coal India, the world&#8217;s largest miner of the fuel by output, plans to become a net-zero carbon emitter in three to four years, its chairman, Pramod Agrawal, said on Monday. The firm&#8217;s foray into renewable energy, greater internal energy efficiency, cleaner transport and efforts to boost green cover at all sites are expected to contribute to the net-zero target, Agrawal told an industry gathering. &#8220;We plan that maybe in the next three to four years, we should become a net-zero company,&#8221; Agrawal said in a presentation to the 15th Indian Coal Markets Conference. &#8220;We have a lot of land, [&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":[131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-473887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473887","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=473887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}