Reality check: Coal CCUS Key for Energy Transition

Energy transition projections remain open ended about phasing down coal mining and coal-based power generation. This is, unsurprisingly, the most difficult segment of the transition for India because coal reserves are the only fossil energy resource India has in abundance. Ten coal producers account for about 90 percent of global coal production—China-50 percent, India-10 percent, Indonesia-7 […]

AI: Keep the Genie Bottled

Humans have faced existential threats before during the 300,000 years they have been around. Self-inflicted harm exceeds damage from natural calamities. Science has grown our understanding of how human progress itself seeds new existential threats. And yet, humans have proliferated and benefited from each scientific iteration that outsourced work to machines. Is Artificial Intelligence (AI) […]

wield The stick to walk the Long Road to Net Zero

The path to net zero is not just long but also likely to be a twisted, winding mountain road, full of uncertainties and expensive, risky alternatives, necessitating doubling back often, technology hopping and nimbly stepping past geopolitical disruptions. Scientists, technologists, businesses, and politicians should lead The pilots for this enterprise are scientists, technologists, and businesses […]

IPSOS Global Survey 2023 on Climate Action Perceptions

Seventy percent of Indians believe that their country is a world leader in climate action—the highest endorsement across 29 advanced, upper- and lower-middle-income economies excluding China, as per the IPSOS Global Survey. On average, only 31 percent globally and 41 percent of Swedes and 38 percent of Singaporeans share this belief about their own countries. […]

India Energy Transition: Who will lead?

By 2070, India will go from spewing 2.2 billion tons of carbon dioxide annually to none at all — a near nirvana like, post-industrial wonderland called “Net Zero” — when a country’s carbon emissions from humans, animals and decaying plants equal the amount of carbon that forests and trees absorb to grow. Any additional emissions […]

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