INTERNATIONAL ENERGY DISCOURSES AND FUTURES: A CASE STUDY OF TWO EMERGING ECONOMIES (INDIA AND CHINA)

Abstract

"Scholarly notions on the global energy futures along with the historical discourses of coal, oil and gas which further attempt to gaze through the key question of both relational and productive power of big states Post-covid-19 pandemic. This paper central focus is to aware us about the perpetual exploitation of coal as a dominant form of energy resource broadly in context of China and India and its relevance despite many global policy agendas on low carbon emissions and paradoxes of coal. Meanwhile, the other forms of energy resources at once come to halt and jolted due to prolonged lockdowns under the covid-19 pandemic. However, the phenomenal resurgence of coal in China and India over the past two decades centred on rising economies of China and India and more recently a great shift in geopolitical paradigm amidst Russia-Ukraine war. How will the energy relationship of both with the rest of the world affect the development and shape the global context? There is a need for transition from (oil and coal) neoliberalism towards sustainable, clean and low carbon economies not only in global meeting and international climate conferences besides making it a ground reality in order to plan for a recovery due to pandemic so that we can achieve maximum economic impacts, shaping a secure and sustainable development for all and forge new employments around the world".