India, Jan. 16 -- If we are ramping up coal production abroad at a time when the IPCC and UN say it should drop, we should know what we are getting into

This is the second in a two-part series. The first part can be read here .

Do India's poor need coal from Adani's Carmichael mine?

We ended the first part of this series by talking about the Ultra Mega Power Plants (UMPPs) that Adani and Tata Power set up in Mundra, Gujarat.

Sure, UMPPs do offer economies of scale and more efficient technology. Given that we are likely to continue consuming coal for a while, the need for higher-quality coal, including through imports, is real.

But locking up nearly half of Gujarat's power capacity in plants which were this reliant on imports? And the...