India, Sept. 30 -- India was forward-looking in launching its Hydrogen Mission to take us into a new carbon emission free industrial economy. This alone would save mankind from the disaster of global warming. Green hydrogen produced without carbon emissions could be a substitute for fossil fuels in most of the 'hard to abate' sectors. We have now fortunately reached an inflection point where we can leapfrog and become an advanced green industrial economy as early as in the next decade.

India has a decisive cost advantage as the price of solar power and storage in the country is one of the lowest in the world. The price is now lower than new thermal power when our domestic coal is the cheapest fossil fuel in the world. With this cost adva...