{"id":477271,"date":"2026-10-07T05:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T12:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=477271"},"modified":"2026-10-07T05:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T12:04:10","slug":"india-rejects-un-climate-politics-in-favor-of-industrialization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=477271","title":{"rendered":"India Rejects UN Climate Politics in Favor of Industrialization"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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CO2 Coalition<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Vijay Jayaraj<\/p>\n\n\n\n

India\u2019s External Affairs Minister, Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, used the U.N. General Assembly gathering to say something that climate scaremongers like Al Gore and John Kerry have spent three decades excluding from the conversation: \u201cEnergy security is at the heart of development. Availability and prices should not be manipulated for political ends.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The developing world, he said, needs \u201cfair economic and trade practices which enhance our production capabilities and do not reduce us to mere consumers. Our right to industrialize must not be denied.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Jaishankar\u2019s statement is a rebuke to climate campaigners who once envisioned India as the poster child of the \u201cgreen\u201d transition, the manipulators of energy \u201cfor political ends.\u201d Those would be the anti-fossil fuel governments that themselves grew rich on coal, oil, and natural gas and now demand that others pursue their own prosperity with inferior energy sources like wind and solar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The minister knows that a nation without the capability to make steel, cement, fertilizer, and electronics stays a buyer of other people\u2019s goods. That is the future of \u201cmere consumers\u201d that he refuses to accept on behalf of India and the rest of the Global South.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What makes this moment interesting is that India\u2019s actions presaged Dr. Jaishankar\u2019s words. New Delhi has spent years reciting net-zero talking points at climate conferences while quietly building one of the most aggressive expansions of fossil fuel use on the planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

India achieved 1 billion metric tons of coal production<\/a> for the first time in 2024-25, with thermal plants supplying more than 70% of the country\u2019s power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

India also turned to the United States to lock in supplies of oil and natural gas, a move I described as a manifestation of energy sovereignty in the India-U.S. deal<\/a>. Coal for the grid, oil for transport, and gas for fertilizer and industry. That is the energy mix of a country that intends to grow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In April, the most telling decision to date came when New Delhi quietly withdrew its bid to host the U.N.\u2019s annual climate summit<\/a> in 2028, citing a \u201creview of its commitments.\u201d Its net-zero target of 2070<\/a> already was the most distant deadline of any major economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though India has made progress in tackling poverty, its per capita income remains a fraction of G7 nations whose diplomats lecture climate dogma and expect India\u2019s rural families to wait decades for grid-scale batteries so that a European bureaucrat can announce a climate milestone. That is the outrageous bargain publicly rejected by the subcontinent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

India\u2019s louder voice did not emerge in a vacuum. The current American administration has created more space for public discussion about the economic consequences of aggressive climate mandates. This matters because Washington still shapes global finance, energy diplomacy, and institutional priorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When America treats oil, gas, coal, nuclear power and domestic energy production as strategic assets rather than embarrassments, developing countries are better positioned to resist pressure from globalist bureaucracies. Washington\u2019s pro-energy, pro-growth posture empowers India to speak plainly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jaishankar made his argument in the context of the \u201cGlobal South,\u201d and that framing matters. Hundreds of millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa still live without electricity. Many African governments sit on vast gas and coal reserves they are expected to leave in the ground. India, with its economic weight and diplomatic reach, can say what smaller nations fear to utter at the negotiating table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The climate movement has built its moral authority on the claim that it speaks for the world\u2019s poor. India has dismantled that assertion on the U.N.\u2019s own stage. The poor, it turns out, want electricity that works, fuel they can afford, and jobs in factories that run on something more dependable than good intentions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Originally published at PJ Media<\/a><\/em>, October 2nd, 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vijay Jayaraj is a Science and Research Associate at the<\/em> CO2 Coalition<\/em><\/a>, Fairfax, Virginia. He holds an M.S. in environmental sciences from the University of East Anglia and a postgraduate degree in energy management from Robert Gordon University, both in the U.K., and a bachelor\u2019s in engineering from Anna University, India. He served as a research associate with the Changing Oceans Research Unit at University of British Columbia, Canada.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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