Spotty policies, Ukraine war darken India's climate change targets

As Prime Minister Narendra Modi prepares to attend the 27th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP27) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the latest edition of the world’s most prestigious climate gathering, in Egypt from November 6 to 18, there is a growing chasm between the government’s renewable ambitions and the air you breathe. Some of that can be attributed to the effects of the Russia-Ukraine conflict — which previous COP editions could not factor into climate mitigation plans. The rest has to do with spotty policies that are often contradictory to what India has set