India is on track to reduce emissions

Topics Covered: Conservation related issues. India is on track to reduce emissions: Context: Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said that India was the only major G20 country that was on track towards keeping to its nationally determined commitments to halt runaway global warming. It had achieved 21% of its emissions intensity reduction target as a proportion of …

Insights into Editorial: Reject this inequitable climate proposal

Context: In an extraordinary move in climate diplomacy, UN Secretary General, delivering the Darbari Seth Memorial Lecture, at the Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), in New Delhi, called on India to make no new investment in coal after 2020. The UN Secretary General call for India to give up coal immediately and reduce emissions by …