Climate Change challenges: India's need for coal

Countries around the world are being told they must agree to phase out the use of coal power, to prevent catastrophic global warming.

Ahead of the latest climate change summit in the UK, nations have been negotiating a timetable to stop burning the fossil fuel, which emits vast quantities of carbon dioxide.

But many poorer and developing nations depend on coal for their energy. India is one country that is still building new coal-fired power stations, as it seeks to provide electricity for it vast population.

Huw Edwards presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Rajini Vaidyanathan from the east Indian state of Odisha.

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[Pappu]

UK's carbon emission per capita is 5 times of India. US' is 12 times of India. Americans and Britons discussing whether India needs to stop?

[minilroy]

Britain and US developed so fast with all available resources like coal, and now looking down on other developing countries like India and says- "Oh pollution"..!!

[Jack-fosu]

I heard there was a time coal ash blanketed all of London.

[eu]

US China doing all pollutions .
BBC : hey guys look at India.

[PB-hfof]

Britain has sucked out billion of pounds from India, let squire that up before lecturing all these things. There is a great change in scenario in last 10 years, LPG is being accessible to greater numbers of people, you only show one instance and try to paint entire country bad. Indian news channel don’t show interest in you, otherwise we can also show many bad examples to expose how your economy is decaying continuously

[haryanvivillager]

Britain deforested so much land in colonial india
Kicked tribals out
Hunted and extinct enormous amount of species
Exploited its colonies at best pace and developed

[penpithmind]

It's funny how they care so much about India but doesn't talk about UK or USA. Just amplifying propoganda.

[jaatbalwan]

Don't teach daddy... india is also a major producer of renewable energy....and by 2030 india will reduce it's dependency over coal and petroleum 😀....but BBC will never going to be change 😂🤦🙏

[Manish_Kumar_Singh]

West : we won't give India economic Uranium, and we won't give them new renewable technology

Also West : why India not stop burning coal

[Cray-wilder]

Indias actually well ahead of it's green energy target for 2021.

[RenuSharma_]

Lecturing is very easy...No one who is commenting follows 100% ecofriendly steps... It's just we try to regulate others everytime coz its an easy option.

[gurjazzgaming]

For ur kind information India is the only Country who follow Paris Solar energy aggrement properly
That's why India also Get Headquarter of ISA International Solar alliance headquarter in India ( gurugram ) .

[AAKASH-jemh]

First be the reason for poverty of a country and than satisfy your ego by focusing on that poverty.. hope bbc shows homeless poors of britain

[sagardahiya]

Then remove patents from environmental friendly energy technologies.

[vaibhavkumarbiradar]

India ranked 10th in Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) 2021 so well ahead of China and USA

[쇼츠따라]

Can the poor around the world pay for Net Zero? Who benefits, and who loses? It would be unfair game for those who need any energy for living which they can pay.

[arnavmishra]

They forgot India's Solar Park in Rajisthan!

[Jpscat]

The lesson of this video is….poor people don’t care about the environment. All they can care about is making it day to day. That’s why green initiatives that make the cost of life more expensive are self defeating.

[phoque]

The UK burned coal until its own mines were all depleted 😒

[hw]

The carbon tax should be calculating the historical cumulative carbon emissions per country per capita . The developing countries should just set their own rules than been played by developed countries.