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India’s Plans to Double Coal Production Ignore Climate Threat
The south Asian giant is setting new targets to use more coal, despite committing to transitioning away from fossil fuels.
Wagons of a freight train at the coal mine in Gevra, India.
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As climate diplomats at COP28 in Dubai debated an agreement to transition away from fossil fuels last December, India was facing another energy conundrum: It needed to build more power capacity, fast.