India presses ahead with coal as China cuts permits ahead of COP29

China began 2024 by cutting permits for coal-fired generators for the first time. India, on the other hand, is doubling up on the fuel.

Until two years back, it was the reverse: India was pushing renewables and freezing new coal projects while China was pressing the pedal on coal.

As world leaders prepare their dossiers on climate targets to present at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku, Azerbaijan, next month, India, a leading global voice for emissions control, may need to reassess its commitments made at COP26 in Glasgow in 2021. The world’s fastest growing major