Election 2024: What do manifestos of BJP, Congress say on key environmental issues

Mumbai: While air pollution continues to occupy a prominent place in the manifestos of India’s two biggest political parties, one of the biggest causes of climate change- coal, and the need for a justful transition away from it-remains missing from the manifestos of these parties.

This, while India remains a key voice in global climate negotiations and has agreed to phase down, if not phase out, coal.

As India reels under another intense summer that could possibly break historic heat records, heat action plans also do not feature in party agendas, nor do measures to adapt to urban flash floods and to cyclones.