Will India's coal power plans pose a threat to limiting global warming to safe levels?

Chaturvedi, RK (2018) Will India's coal power plans pose a threat to limiting global warming to safe levels? In: Current Science, 114 (9). pp. 1812-1814.

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Abstract

In a recent paper, Shearer et al. have argued that the future emissions from India's coal plants would exceed the country's climate commitments in the sector. They suggest that this would threaten the goal of limiting warming to below 1.5°sC. The conclusions as presented in Shearer et al. are misleading. We demonstrate that they have projected an unlikely scenario, without exploring the more likely alternate scenarios proposed by India's official new Draft National Electricity Plan.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Current Science
Publisher:	Indian Academy of Sciences
Additional Information:	The copyright for this article belongs to the Indian Academy of Sciences.
Department/Centre:	Division of Mechanical Sciences > Divecha Centre for Climate Change
Date Deposited:	11 Aug 2022 10:36
Last Modified:	11 Aug 2022 10:36
URI:	https://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/75553

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