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Tigers, robots and unintended consequences: Two stories from India

Tigers, robots and unintended consequences: Two stories from India

FromJust Transition


Tigers, robots and unintended consequences: Two stories from India

FromJust Transition

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Length:
30 minutes
Released:
Nov 21, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

India is the world's second largest coal producer after China. But it has committed to changing its energy profile drastically to meet climate change targets. As you will hear from our correspondents Anuradha Nagaraj and Roli Srivastava, the pace of that change is having unexpected consequences. 
In the town of Chandrapur, Maharashtra, coal mining has led to an unexpected revival of local ecology, and deaths from tiger and leopard attacks. Sand dumped from the mining process has created new hills in the countryside which have become an accidental refuge for large predators. 
In the southern town of Pavagada in the state of Karnataka, a government scheme to buy farmland for a solar park was initially popular. Local farmers were promised jobs and a better future. That optimism is fading as people learn the solar park will use robots to maintain the solar panels. 
Read the full story on tigers invading India's villages here: https://tmsnrt.rs/3V72o7X
Read the full story on India's biggest solar parks here: https://bit.ly/3giNBsi
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Released:
Nov 21, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (7)

How do we tackle the climate crisis without neglecting people whose livelihoods depend on polluting industries?  And what happens when they’re left behind? A Just Transition is about transforming the economy in ways that are fair for everyone - whether you mine coal or crypto, whether you work in the city or on a plantation, whether you’re an activist or an industrialist. In Series 1 of this podcast from Context, join host Iman Amrani and our journalists in Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, Iceland, India and the United States to hear extraordinary stories about how the Just Transition is playing out across the globe.