Coal: why China and India aren’t the climate villains of COP26 https://theconversation.com/coal-why-china-and-india-arent-the-climate-villains-of-cop26-171879 November 17, 2021
Labelling India and China as the chief villains of COP26 is a convenient narrative. The financial aid which rich countries promised yet failed to deliver as part of the Paris Agreement signed in 2015 was supposed to help developing countries dump coal for cleaner sources of energy. And while the world berated India and China for weakening the Glasgow Climate Pact’s coal resolution, few questioned the fossil fuel projects being floated in developed nations, like the UK’s Cambo oilfield and the Line 3 oil pipeline between Canada and the US... A rapid switch to renewable energy sources is easier when energy demand isn’t growing as fast, like it is in rapidly developing countries. These countries need financial assistance from richer countries to make that leap.
Comment: on Whats App: Pradeep E ..In my view, during an emergency there is no point in reasoning who is right and who is not, India could still stop coal and go for renewables by taking the renewables path full scale, but they choose to keep coal (for personal corporate interests) for the growth trajectory and will only look at renewables for 30-40% of the power generation that too by 2070. So in my view the time has well past for all this protectionism of corporate interests, we are in an emergency!