India’s Coal Plant Plans Conflict with Climate Commitments
Proposed plants could jeopardize target of avoiding 1.5 degrees Celsius of mean global warming.
70 percent of India’s power comes from coal. But a new study shows India will not be able to meet its Paris climate agreement commitments in the coming years if it carries through with plans to build nearly 370 coal-fired power plants. Credit: Arnold Paul, cropped by Gralo, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
India will not be able to meet its Paris climate agreement commitments in the coming years if it carries through with plans to build nearly 370 coal-fired power plants, a new study finds.
“India is facing a dilemma of its own making,” said Steve Davis, associate professor of Earth system science at the University of California Irvine and coauthor of a new study published today in Earth’s Future, a journal of the American Geophysical Union. “The country has vowed to curtail its use of fossil fuels in electricity generation, but it has also put itself on a path to building hundreds of coal-burning power plants to feed its growing industrial economy.”
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