"India’s Workers Are Trapped In a Vicious Cycle Of Coal and Heat", 26 May 2023

Continued reliance on the dirtiest fossil fuel means the world’s most populous nation is making its climate troubles worse.

Wealthy nations are, by and large, moving away from coal, the single largest contributor to climate change...But even with considerable advances in renewable energy, the world’s most populous country still relies on the black stuff for roughly three-quarters of power generation, and will need it for years to come.

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A vast, climate-vulnerable nation is making its own predicament worse, leaving hundreds of millions of its workers caught in a vicious heat cycle — with all the health and economic productivity costs that come with toiling in sweltering conditions.

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The impact is far wider, though, threatening overall productivity, long-term health and even survival, as hundreds of millions are exposed to extreme conditions — a greater proportion of the population than anywhere else globally. Heat may lower the quality of life for almost 600 million Indians by 2100.