BBC News is reporting:
India has already embarked on a major plan that would actually increase its carbon output.
The new government wants to double coal production - the dirtiest of fossil fuels - to one billion tonnes annually within five years.
"Increasing domestic production of coal will be a big step towards long-term energy security of India," Indian power minister Piyush Goyal.
"India has the third largest coal reserves in the world, yet we import billions of dollars of thermal coal, impacting our foreign exchange reserves."
More than 80% of electricity generation in India comes from fossil fuels and the power sector consumed nearly 70% of the coal the country produced in 2011.
With an installed electricity generation capacity of nearly 250 gigaWatts (gW), it plans to add more than 70 gW to its grid by 2017, with almost all of it from coal-fired power plants.
As India's National Planning Commission says: "The dominance of coal in the energy mix is likely to continue in foreseeable future."
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