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Fossil fuel generation of electricity is the largest single source of greenhouse-gas emissions worldwide. Yet demand for inexpensive power will rise in a great tide in the decades to come, especially in South Asia and sub-
Saharan Africa, the two regions of the globe with the least access to electricity. All the countries of Africa, taken together, have twice as many people without electricity as India does ? 622 million. No country is content with that.
?It?s a matter of shame that 68 years after independence we have not been able to provide a basic amenity like electricity,? ?Piyush Goyal, India?s minister of state for power, coal and new and renewable energy, said recently.
The Indian government has launched an ambitious project to supply 24-hour power to its towns and villages by 2022 ? with plans for miles of new feeder lines, infrastructure upgrades and solar micro?grids for the remotest areas.
If India?s carbon emissions continue to rise, by 2040 it will overtake the United States as the world?s second-highest emitter, behind only China, according to estimates by the International Energy Agency.
Yet the Indian government has long argued that the United States and other industrialized nations bear a greater responsibility for the cumulative damage to the environment from carbon emissions than developing nations ? with Modi urging ?climate justice? and chiding Western nations to change their wasteful ways.
[World without power: 1.3 billion people are living in the dark]
Total carbon dioxide emissions for India were 1.7 tons per capita in 2012, the most recent complete data available, compared with 6.9 tons for China and 16.3 tons for the United States, according to the World Resources Institute. Officials say they are keenly aware of India?s vulnerability to the impacts of climate change: rising sea levels, drought, flooding and food security.
Yet the government says it must depend on fossil fuels to bring an estimated 30 percent of the population out of extreme poverty.
?We cannot abandon coal,? said Jairam Ramesh, the former environment minister and climate negotiator, and author of the book ?Green Signals: Ecology, Growth, and Democracy in India.? ?It would be suicidal on our part to give up on coal for the next 15 to 20 years, at least, given the need.?
?We are just surviving?
Although 300 million Indians have no access to power, millions more in the country of 1.2 billion people live with spotty supplies of electricity from the country?s unreliable power grid. The grid failed spectacularly in 2012, plunging more than 600 million people into total blackout.
Fossil fuel generation of electricity is the largest single source of greenhouse-gas emissions worldwide. Yet demand for inexpensive power will rise in a great tide in the decades to come, especially in South Asia and sub-
Saharan Africa, the two regions of the globe with the least access to electricity. All the countries of Africa, taken together, have twice as many people without electricity as India does ? 622 million. No country is content with that.
?It?s a matter of shame that 68 years after independence we have not been able to provide a basic amenity like electricity,? ?Piyush Goyal, India?s minister of state for power, coal and new and renewable energy, said recently.
The Indian government has launched an ambitious project to supply 24-hour power to its towns and villages by 2022 ? with plans for miles of new feeder lines, infrastructure upgrades and solar micro?grids for the remotest areas.
If India?s carbon emissions continue to rise, by 2040 it will overtake the United States as the world?s second-highest emitter, behind only China, according to estimates by the International Energy Agency.
Yet the Indian government has long argued that the United States and other industrialized nations bear a greater responsibility for the cumulative damage to the environment from carbon emissions than developing nations ? with Modi urging ?climate justice? and chiding Western nations to change their wasteful ways.
[World without power: 1.3 billion people are living in the dark]
Total carbon dioxide emissions for India were 1.7 tons per capita in 2012, the most recent complete data available, compared with 6.9 tons for China and 16.3 tons for the United States, according to the World Resources Institute. Officials say they are keenly aware of India?s vulnerability to the impacts of climate change: rising sea levels, drought, flooding and food security.
Yet the government says it must depend on fossil fuels to bring an estimated 30 percent of the population out of extreme poverty.
?We cannot abandon coal,? said Jairam Ramesh, the former environment minister and climate negotiator, and author of the book ?Green Signals: Ecology, Growth, and Democracy in India.? ?It would be suicidal on our part to give up on coal for the next 15 to 20 years, at least, given the need.?
?We are just surviving?
Although 300 million Indians have no access to power, millions more in the country of 1.2 billion people live with spotty supplies of electricity from the country?s unreliable power grid. The grid failed spectacularly in 2012, plunging more than 600 million people into total blackout.
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