Summary
As the world slowly moves toward renewable energy, one of the most complex dimensions of the transition is the obligation imposed upon developing countries, which also suffer some of the worst impacts of climate change. Why should emerging markets sacrifice growth to meet climate targets, when they were not the nations that caused the climate crisis in the first place?
It's a point that India's prime minister, Narendra Modi, raised at the 2021 COP26 summit in Glasgow, Scotland. Modi pledged that India would hit net zero by 2070 — two decades many of the Western countries, and a decade later than China. At last week's COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, India affi......