India moving away from coal slowly, considerable progress by states: Study

New Delhi: India alone is home to 7 percent (21GW) of the global coal project pipeline, which is 56 percent of South Asia's total, a study showed on Tuesday, with the country moving slowly away from coal at a national level, however considerable progress is being made at the state level. Four countries in South Asia -- Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka -- have previously considered or are currently considering coal.
Together, they account for 13 percent of the global pre-construction pipeline (37.4GW), said a new report by climate change think tank E3G that assessed the global pipeline of new coal projects. It finds there has been a 76 percent reduction in proposed coal power since the Paris Agreement was signed in 2015, bringing the end of new coal construction into sight.