Heating up: Smoke rising from a coal-powered steel plant in the eastern state of Jharkhand, India. The country’s energy grid is still heavily dependent on coal. — AP
THE recent climate talks in Egypt left us with a sobering reality: The window for keeping global warming to 1.5 deg C is closing fast, and what is on the table now is insufficient to avert some of the worst potential effects of climate change.
The Nationally Determined Contribution targets of Asian and Pacific countries will result in a 16 per cent jump in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 from 2010 levels.
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