{"id":50237,"date":"2022-11-15T19:57:51","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T10:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/15\/india-committed-to-clean-energy-but-continues-to-boost-coal-production"},"modified":"2022-11-15T19:57:51","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T10:57:51","slug":"indias-energy-conundrum-committed-to-renewables-but-still-expanding-coal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50237","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s energy conundrum: committed to renewables but still expanding coal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Critics says India\u2019s plans to increase coal production to 1bn tonnes a year are environmentally devastating and unnecessary<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/live\/2022\/nov\/15\/cop27-egypt-news-organisations-climate-justice-live\">Cop27 live \u2013 latest news updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Three days before India\u2019s environment minister boarded a flight to Egypt for this year\u2019s UN climate summit, Cop27, the country\u2019s finance minister was busy with a new announcement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndia needs greater investment in coal production,\u201d said Nirmala Sitharaman at the Delhi launch of India\u2019s biggest ever coalmine auction, where 141 new sites for coalmines will be sold off to the highest bidder.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/15\/india-committed-to-clean-energy-but-continues-to-boost-coal-production\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critics says India\u2019s plans to increase coal production to 1bn tonnes a year are environmentally devastating and unnecessary Cop27 live \u2013 latest news updatesThree days before India\u2019s environment minister boarded a flight to Egypt for this year\u2019s UN clim&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2331,589,493,65,492,62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-crisis","category-coal","category-energy","category-environment","category-fossil-fuels","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50238,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50237\/revisions\/50238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}