In this article for Mint, Niranjan Rajadhyaksha discusses the merits and demerits of a global carbon tax. He also looks at the fairness of having developing economies like India adopt the same. 

The Economic Survey of 2017-18 was presented recently by Chief Economic Adviser Arvind Subramanian, who said that he learnt 10 new things while preparing this survey.

For an economy still one-third the size of China’s, any realistic emissions peaking date for India is decades in the future.

Tying our hands prematurely to stringent greenhouse gas goals will be disastrous for our development prospects