Editorials/Opinions Analysis For UPSC 20 February 2023
Contents
- A BRIDGE TO A CLEANER FUTURE: NATURAL GAS
- To Navigate Our Challenges And Opportunities
A BRIDGE TO A CLEANER FUTURE: NATURAL GAS
Context
- The Energy Conservation (Amendment) Bill, 2022, was a significant development because it has the potential to bring together a number of separate initiatives, including the Perform, Achieve, and Trade programme and renewable energy certificates, by establishing a market for carbon trading.
- It will hasten the transition to clean energy by igniting cleaner substitutes like natural gas, pumped storage, and hydrogen.
Relevance:
GS Paper-3: Climate Change, Energy and Environment
Mains Question
In line with the government’s goal of creating a gas-based economy, natural gas is well positioned to play a significant role in the energy transition. Evaluate. (150 Words)
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To Navigate Our Challenges And Opportunities
Context:
Global events can either act as headwinds that make things harder or tailwinds that open up new opportunities in the globalised world, where success and failure are not always limited by national boundaries. Similar turbulent geopolitical and economic conditions that are affecting the rest of the world will soon affect India. Policies that aim to boost the nation’s growth rate must take these factors into account.
Relevance:
GS Paper-3: Indian Economy and issues relating to planning, mobilization, of resources, growth, development and employment
Mains question
India is positioned to face geopolitical and economic difficulties akin to those experienced by other countries. What steps can India take to turn these obstacles into opportunities? Discuss (250 words).
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