Sibi Arasu

About Sibi Arasu

Reporter with The Associated Press

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A solar power plant works in the Pavagada Tumkur district, in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, India, on Sept. 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool, File)

2022 was a 'pivot year' for clean energy, brought on by policy, climate, war

For renewable energy companies in India, it's a good time to be in business.

News | December 21st 2022

An fisherman cooking a rice on his Boat as a power plant emits smoke in the background on Thursday, March 27, 2008 in Jakarta, Indonesia. (AP Photo/Irwin Fedriansyah, File)

Indonesia set to accelerate clean energy transition with deals worth $10 billion

Indonesia signed deals with international lenders and major nations on Tuesday, November 15, 2022, that will bring billions of dollars in funding to help the country increase its use of renewable energy and reduce its reliance on coal.

News | November 15th 2022

Smoke rises from a coal-powered steel plant at Hehal village near Ranchi, in eastern state of Jharkhand, on Sept. 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri, File)

At UN climate summit, India to flex its negotiating muscles

As countries gathered in Scotland were crystallizing their pledges at last year's United Nations climate conference, India used its might to intervene. Along with China, India took issue with the draft deal's suggestion to “phase out” coal, preferring the wording, “phasedown."

News, Politics | October 28th 2022

This photograph provided by the United Nations shows U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres speak on India UN Partnership at IIT Mumbai in Mumbai, India, on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2022. (Deepak Malik/ United Nations via AP)

UN chief and Indian PM launch individual and collective climate action program

The Indian government's flagship program to encourage individual and collective action on climate was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the United Nations Secretary-General on Thursday, October 20, 2022.

News, Politics | October 20th 2022

Pakistani men receive food, distributed by Pakistani Army troops in a flood-hit area in Rajanpur, district of Punjab, Pakistan, on Aug. 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Asim Tanveer, File)

Pakistan fatal flooding has familiar hallmark of climate change

The familiar ingredients of a warming world were in place: searing temperatures, hotter air holding more moisture, extreme weather getting wilder, melting glaciers, people living in harm’s way, and poverty. They combined in vulnerable Pakistan to create unrelenting rain and deadly flooding.

News | August 30th 2022

A person picks through trash for reusable items as a fire rages at the Bhalswa landfill in New Delhi, on April 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)

Landfills are methane 'super emitters', satellite data shows

Landfills are releasing a significant amount of planet−warming methane into the atmosphere from the decomposition of waste, a study suggests.

News | August 11th 2022

A full moon rises from behind residential buildings in Greater Noida, a suburb of New Delhi, India, on May 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri, File)

India passes energy conservation bill

India took another step toward meeting its climate goals on Tuesday, August 9, 2022, when lawmakers in parliament’s lower house approved legislation that would require greater use of renewable energy and force industrial polluters to pay a price for the carbon they emit.

News | August 10th 2022