The Guardian´s environment editor, JohnVidal, reports that energy generated from new coal-power stations in the single state of Andhra Pradesh could eclipse emissions from an entire country.
A single Indian state is to build a new fleet of coal-power stations that could make it one of the world’s top 20 emitters of carbon emissions – on a par with countries such as Spain or Poland.
The proposed coal plants in the south-eastern state of Andhra Pradesh are part of a wider Indian “coal rush” to bring power to the country’s hundreds of millions living without electricity.
Indian labourers unload coal powder on the outskirts of Hyderabad, capital of the state Andhra Pradesh. Photograph: Noah Seelam/AFP/Getty Images
