Authored by Vijay Jayaraj via American Greatness,
Sometimes a story gets buried not because editors conspire against it, but because the news cycle has room for only one crisis at a time.
This year the big news has been the Iran war. But even accounting for competing headlines, the silence around a genuinely consequential development is telling.
And that is the story of India’s explicit rejection of the global net zero movement. India has walked away from its bid to host the COP33 UN climate conference, and the world’s climate press has treated it as a footnote rather than the signal it is.
India had spent years projecting a rising voice in the development of climate policy, and hosting a COP33 is the closest thing the bureaucracy has to a coronation.
Then, quietly, without public explanation, India withdrew its offer. No press conference. No elaboration. Just a government stepping back from a role for which it auditioned for years.
The truth is India has run the numbers on the cost of a net-zero energy transition for a population of 1.4 billion climbing out of poverty, and it does not like what it sees.
The notion that India should shackle its economy by adhering to restrictive climate policies, while its people still grapple with energy deficits, is illogical and morally indefensible.
Data India Doesn’t Need a Summit to See
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