In case of breathing in toxic air, the use of coal has to be reduced

Coal use is believed to be responsible for up to 40 percent of temperature-raising pollution. The problem with India, China and other developing countries is that their power plants and factories run on coal. There are currently around 2500 coal power plants in the world. 1080 of them are in China alone. A new coal power plant is being built there almost every day. The number of coal-fired power plants in India is 281.
Apart from them steel and Coal is also burnt in cement factories and brick kilns. Most of the power plants in developed countries run on gas. There, electricity has also started to be generated with renewable energy sources like solar and wind. India’s problem is also that it has to import oil and gas worth about 7.5 lakh crore rupees every year and also spends three lakh crore rupees on oil and gas exploration and subsidy for consumers. Coal is abundant in India. In such a case, if he adopts the alternative of electricity to reduce his dependence on oil and gas, then they will have to build hundreds of power plants like China, which will be mainly coal-fired. This is because it will take a lot of money and time to expand the nuclear energy capabilities, while the demand for electricity will increase rapidly along with economic growth and nuclear energy alone may not be able to meet it.
In order to deal with this challenge, India has been leading the developing countries in this campaign along with demanding clean energy technology from the developed countries and necessary funds to adopt it. Climate justice also has the same need because of developed countries. Due to pollution, the climate has reached its present critical condition. Worryingly, developed countries are not ready to finance the adoption of clean technology. In the convention of 2009, he had promised that he would donate 10,000 crore dollars every year, which he has not fulfilled till date.
In fact, for the past half a decade, people’s opinion was divided in many developed countries regarding climate change. So they were not ready to pay the money but now their opinion has started to change. To save climate justice from falling prey to such problems World-renowned economist Jeffrey Shakes has suggested a trick.
According to him, considering the energy needs of developing countries and the principle of their social responsibility to spread pollution, pollution tax should be imposed on rich countries. In this, high-income countries will pay a pollution tax of five dollars per ton and middle-income countries will pay a pollution tax of 2.5 dollars per ton. This tax should be doubled every five years. At present, the annual pollution of rich countries is 1200 million tons and that of middle income countries is 1600 million tons. In such a case from this tax about 10,000 crore dollars will be deposited annually. Out of this, 5,000 crore dollars should be distributed as direct grants. The remaining $5,000 crore can be given to financial institutions such as the World Bank, the African Development Bank and the Asian Development Bank.
This will help developing countries to adopt clean energy and face the effects of climate change, at the same time it will increase the pressure on developed countries to reduce pollution in order to reduce pollution tax. If the said plan of Geoffrey Shakes is accepted, then to achieve the goal of net zero and the developing countries things like providing assistance of 10,000 crores of dollars annually will not remain mere fluff. Currently, all the countries are releasing a total of 3300 million tons of pollution into the atmosphere. In order to meet the target of keeping the average temperature below 1.5 degrees Celsius, this level of pollution will have to be reduced to 2640 million tonnes by 2030.
However, if we look at the plans of the 197 countries that joined Glasgow, it will increase to 4190 million tons by 2030. With this, there is a fear that the temperature will rise to 2.4 degrees. In such a situation, developing countries like India have to think thatBanning coal and advocating for climate justice cannot save us from climate change. Today, the air of almost every small and big city in India has become so toxic that it has started killing about 17 lakh people every year. This figure is from ‘The Lancet’ magazine. According to a Harvard study, every third death in India is due to air pollution.
Air pollution is caused by coal power plants, airplanes, petrol-diesel vehicles, construction dust and stubble rotting in fields. That’s whyIt is in the interest of India that they should stop using coal and petrol-diesel and soon make all electricity with clean energy and move towards vehicles running on the same electricity. Also, every citizen has to fulfill his responsibility by considering himself as a stakeholder in the climate. This is a huge fundamental change which is not possible without political consensus and public consensus. Along with this, all the countries will have to work together to maintain the environment and bring the carbon emissions under control. Developed and industrialized countries have this issue you will have to be more careful.
America, China, Canada and some other countries are making a big contribution in polluting the air and water while the blame is falling on the developing countries. Being economically prosperous, they can contribute better to climate protection. These days pollution has become a problem for people in India. The Supreme Court is showing strictness, but the hands and feet of the central and state governments are swollen. This is because no concrete and effective framework has ever been prepared to solve this problem.