BY TILAK K DOSHI: To hard-bitten observers of realpolitik in international negotiations, the response might well be that “if you can believe that China will be net zero by 2060, then you can believe India will be so by 2070.”
During the first week of October 2021, both India and China made desperate attempts to buy the stranded Australian coal shipments in China’s port warehouses. The coal shipments, which were originally intended to be imported into China, were left stranded at the port after China banned the import of Australian coal last year. Despite this ban, China has now unloaded some of the shipments due to unprecedented demand for coal and electricity in the country. India’s industries too have made a dash to secure some of these stranded shipments as a severe coal shortage has gripped India. So, what can we [...]
Coal and India are looking for all the coal they can get.
It was just a normal tropical sunrise for many of the villages in the Southern coast of India. Many fishing communities along the coast of Tamil Nadu did not know what they would face that day. On December 26, 2004, a devastating Tsunami in the Indian Ocean stuck the villages along India’s eastern coast. More than 10,000 lives were lost that day in India. Those who escaped the Tsunami faced their worst nightmare. The tsunami destroyed homes, fishing boats, and entire village infrastructure. 154,000 houses were damaged or destroyed. The financial damage was around US$ 1 billion. The fishing communities in [...]
Contrary to popular opinion, many sections of farmers in India advocate for a free-market system where they are allowed to sell their produce at their own prices.
Each with over 1.3 billion hungry mouths to feed, both India and China have adopted agricultural policies which guarantee sustained growth.
First-world “experts” chide nations that prefer prosperity over poverty
Biotechnology experts believe that this decision signals a big blow to the prospects of GM crop use in India, at least for the foreseeable future and have expressed grave concern for the advancement of crop technology in India.
Western elites can no longer veto power projects
President Biden has learned very little from countries that went Green where manufacturers and suppliers can't compete with China and India.
The success story of India—with its population of 1.3 billion—proves that conservation is possible in the midst of economic development, provided policy makers adopt a development-centric approach with due diligence to the needs of conservation.
China has enough coal-fired power plants in the pipeline to match the entire capacity of the European Union.
Wind Turbines: The New “Apex Predator”
Obama is gone. The "green queen" Angela Merkel is struggling over coal. Britain is brexiting the green EU. Japan is silent, while China and India burn coal like crazy. Russia never did care. And so it goes.
India received $500 million in funding for solar panels to ratify the United Nations’ Paris agreement on global warming.