India Must Give Up Coal in Fight Against Climate Change, UN Chief Says
- Guterres calls for end to fossil-fuel subsidies, new coal
- Half of India’s coal plants seen as uncompetitive by 2022
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India must stop building coal infrastructure and focus on renewable power generation to aid the global fight against climate change and lift its citizens out of poverty, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said.
The nation, the biggest coal consumer after China, must invest in a “clean, green transition” as it recovers from the Covid-19 pandemic, Guterres said at an event organized by New Delhi-based environment advocacy group TERI. It must also end fossil-fuel subsidies, which are about seven times as high as those for clean energy, he said.