{"id":447266,"date":"2021-11-05T08:56:30","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T03:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=447266"},"modified":"2021-11-05T09:19:57","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T03:49:57","slug":"imf-welcomes-indias-announcement-to-adopt-net-zero-by-2070-at-cop26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/imf-welcomes-indias-announcement-to-adopt-net-zero-by-2070-at-cop26\/","title":{"rendered":"IMF welcomes India&#8217;s announcement to adopt net zero by 2070 at COP26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Thursday welcomed India&#8217;s announcement with regard to addressing the climate change challenges at the recently concluded COP26 summit in Glasgow.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We welcome India&#8217;s announcement at the COP26 of new targets to increase reliance on renewables and reduce the carbon intensity of its economy, including to adopt net zero target by 2070,&#8221; Gerry Rice, Director, Communication Department, IMF, told reporters at a news conference.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As you know, India is currently one of the world&#8217;s largest emitters, still heavily reliant on coal for electricity generation. And so, its actions may help catalyse action in other emerging market economies as well,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Thursday welcomed India&#8217;s announcement with regard to addressing the climate change challenges at the recently concluded COP26 summit in Glasgow. &#8220;We welcome India&#8217;s announcement at the COP26 of new targets to increase reliance on renewables and reduce the carbon intensity of its economy, including to adopt net zero target by 2070,&#8221; Gerry Rice, Director, Communication Department, IMF, told reporters at a news conference. &#8220;As you know, India is currently one of the world&#8217;s largest emitters, still heavily reliant on coal for electricity generation. And so, its actions may help catalyse action in other emerging [&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":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447266","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=447266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}