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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Environment
Al Jazeera Staff

COP27: Are India’s climate pledges a lot of hot air?

Operations at an open-cast mine near Dhanbad, an eastern Indian city, in Jharkhand state [File: Altaf Qadri/AP]

India – the third-largest greenhouse gas emitter in the world – has forced climate activists and experts to increase their scrutiny over the South Asian’s nation’s climate-change policies.

The world’s second-most populated country is also one of the most affected by extreme weather as deadly floods and heatwaves have become the norm.

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