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.
