{"id":425714,"date":"2021-07-13T11:09:11","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T05:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=425714"},"modified":"2021-07-13T12:47:13","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T07:17:13","slug":"india-wants-rich-countries-to-pay-more-for-green-energy-shift-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-wants-rich-countries-to-pay-more-for-green-energy-shift-3\/","title":{"rendered":"India wants rich countries to pay more for green energy shift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India can\u2019t prioritise eliminating greenhouse gas emissions without sufficient financing from richer nations to help offset the high cost of transitioning to clean energy, according to a senior government official. <\/p>\n<p>In laying out its position ahead of key global climate talks later this year, the top bureaucrat in India\u2019s environment ministry also said the country doesn\u2019t plan to tighten its emissions goals unless more money is promised from developed economies under the United Nations-sponsored climate change agreement. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery policy decision has a cost to the economy. Going net-zero or using less carbon also has a cost,\u201d Environment Secretary Rameshwar Prasad Gupta said in an interview at his New Delhi office. \u201cWe are not anti-net-zero.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India can\u2019t prioritise eliminating greenhouse gas emissions without sufficient financing from richer nations to help offset the high cost of transitioning to clean energy, according to a senior government official. In laying out its position ahead of key global climate talks later this year, the top bureaucrat in India\u2019s environment ministry also said the country doesn\u2019t plan to tighten its emissions goals unless more money is promised from developed economies under the United Nations-sponsored climate change agreement. \u201cEvery policy decision has a cost to the economy. Going net-zero or using less carbon also has a cost,\u201d Environment Secretary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-425714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}