Author: Aachal Vayeda

Article Summary: A recent Odisha TV report in September 2024 says, “As plans to expand a coal mine move forward, Odisha’s local residents face a difficult decision, weighing the loss of more than 26,00,000 trees.” In 2017, Ridhima Pandey, a 9 year old girl from Uttarakhand filed a climate change litigation to principal bench of National Green Tribunal. The Indian Parliament in early 2023 passed the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act. The Act targets 80% of electricity from renewable sources by 2040 and phase out coal-fired power plants by 2050. “We don’t want these things done by 2050,…