Even going by the per capita emission from fossil fuel alone, India stands far below. “The per capita fossil CO2 emissions in 2021 were 1.3 tC per person per year for the globe and were 4.0 (USA), 2.2 (China), 1.7 (EU27), and 0.5 (India) tC per person per year for the four highest-emitting countries,” the report said. This means people in India, on an average, have much less access to power when compared to other developed or developing regions. Speaking to Outlook, energy economist and South Asia director at the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA), Vibhuti Garg, said that India’s increasing carbon emission is “very much linked to the country’s higher GDP growth rate,” adding “India’s GDP is growing at 7-8 percent annually and is likely to grow by 6-7 percent in the next few years. This economic growth is driven by industrialisation and urbanisation, which is putting more pressure on energy demand. Given that India has its own domestic coal resources, it is exploiting and mining more such resources.” India did, indeed, launch a major push for renewable energy, especially solar power, in 2015. Its installed capacity of renewable energy increased significantly—its wind energy capacity rose from 23.3 gigawatts (GW) in March 2015 to 40.7 GW in July 2022, and solar energy capacity shot up from only 3.744 GW in March 2015 to 57.7 GW in July 2022. Going by India’s Central Electricity Authority’s roadmap to 2030, and the country’s global commitment, India plans to take its installed capacity of renewable energy to about 410 GW by 2030, increasing it by two and a half times, from 160 GW in June (including large hydroelectric projects). Over the past few months, the government has also been trying to increase focus on two other non-fossil-fuel energy resources: hydrogen and nuclear energy.