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AI, an energy guzzling tech at odds with climate change plan: Economic Survey
The Economic Survey 2024 highlights that India, despite making significant strides in climate action, often faces criticism for not aligning with Western solutions.
The Economic Survey 2024 highlights that India, despite making significant strides in climate action, often faces criticism for not aligning with Western solutions.
India's average annual water availability per capita is likely to drop to 1,367 cubic meters by 2031 from an already-low 1,486 cubic meters in 2021.
Given that India is already committed to tripling renewable and nuclear energy by 2030 and energy surplus since FY11, it doesn't need to hung up on coal
At COP28, leaders vow to end fossil fuel usage in a phased manner; some nations are unhappy as it does not mention “complete phaseout”
...but smaller Indian corporates still to follow high standards in ESG reporting and action.
These comments come ahead of the COP28 summit on climate change in the U.A.E.
Ahead of the UN Climate Summit in Dubai, the Oxfam report says carbon emissions of 1% richest are enough to cause 1.3 million excess deaths due to heat
36.8% of India’s land area was drought prone and 854.4 million or 83.85% of Indian population was exposed to drought situations, as per UNCCD report.
42% of smallholder farmers expect changing weather to reduce their crop yields
It analysed the macroeconomic impact of some of the key extreme weather events such as floods, cyclones and droughts in the last 10 years i.e. 2012-13 to 2021-22.