{"id":535922,"date":"2022-11-14T10:14:39","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T04:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=535922"},"modified":"2022-11-14T12:09:45","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T06:39:45","slug":"at-cop27-india-bats-for-phase-down-of-all-fossil-fuels-and-not-just-coal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/at-cop27-india-bats-for-phase-down-of-all-fossil-fuels-and-not-just-coal\/","title":{"rendered":"At COP27, India bats for phase-down of all fossil fuels and not just coal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moving proactively to counter the pressure on coal that is likely to come its way again, India cited the latest IPCC reports to emphasise that meeting the 1.5 or 2 degree Celsius temperature targets requires the phase-down of all fossil fuels and not just coal.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, it called out the duplicity of the developed countries, arguing that the selective labelling of some energy sources as \u2018green\u2019 had no basis in science. The argument was clearly aimed at the recent decision of the European Parliament to classify some uses of gas as \u201cgreen\u201d, even though it wasn\u2019t mentioned.<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s proposal did not mention coal as well, but was a clear attempt to fend off criticism against its continued reliance on coal-based power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moving proactively to counter the pressure on coal that is likely to come its way again, India cited the latest IPCC reports to emphasise that meeting the 1.5 or 2 degree Celsius temperature targets requires the phase-down of all fossil fuels and not just coal. At the same time, it called out the duplicity of the developed countries, arguing that the selective labelling of some energy sources as \u2018green\u2019 had no basis in science. The argument was clearly aimed at the recent decision of the European Parliament to classify some uses of gas as \u201cgreen\u201d, even though it wasn\u2019t mentioned. [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535922","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=535922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}