{"id":201565,"date":"2022-08-23T20:59:46","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T15:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=201565"},"modified":"2022-08-23T21:04:37","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T15:34:37","slug":"indias-clean-energy-transition-plays-to-the-countrys-strengths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indias-clean-energy-transition-plays-to-the-countrys-strengths\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s clean energy transition plays to the country\u2019s strengths"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Syllabus: <\/strong>GS Paper 3, energy and climate change<\/p>\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong>While India\u2019s current commitments are a promising start, they won\u2019t be enough to avert the worst effects of climate change.<\/p>\n<p>India has committed to 500 gigawatts of renewable energy by 2030.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What more is required over and above India\u2019s present climate commitments?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>More financing from developed countries.<\/p>\n<p>There is a need for better batteries to electrify\u00a0the economy.<\/p>\n<p>Direct air capture technologies are prohibitively expensive. They must be made a lot cheaper to deploy at scale.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What are the benefits of emissions cut to India?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>30% emissions cut by 2030 can create 39 million new jobs, as per report from Energy Innovation.<\/p>\n<p>It can move the country from bearing the high price volatility of oil and natural gas to the zero price volatility of renewable sources.<\/p>\n<p>India will benefit from the downward cost curve of advancing technologies in the field of clean energy.<\/p>\n<p>Al Gore\u2019s Climate Trace, uses satellite technology to report on emissions around the globe. World including India will need all these technologies to tackle climate change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syllabus: GS Paper 3, energy and climate change News: While India\u2019s current commitments are a promising start, they won\u2019t be enough to avert the worst effects of climate change. India has committed to 500 gigawatts of renewable energy by 2030. What more is required over and above India\u2019s present climate commitments? More financing from developed&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indias-clean-energy-transition-plays-to-the-countrys-strengths\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India\u2019s clean energy transition plays to the country\u2019s strengths<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[216],"class_list":["post-201565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-3","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704906609},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}