{"id":447349,"date":"2021-11-05T09:36:30","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T04:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=447349"},"modified":"2021-11-05T10:40:43","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T05:10:43","slug":"india-inc-welcomes-modis-pledge-to-achieve-net-zero-emissions-by-2070","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-inc-welcomes-modis-pledge-to-achieve-net-zero-emissions-by-2070\/","title":{"rendered":"India Inc welcomes Modi&#8217;s pledge to achieve net zero emissions by 2070"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India Inc on Tuesday welcomed Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s pledge that the country will achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2070, terming it a &#8220;practical long-term target&#8221; and said the country is well on track to achieve the aspirational targets.<\/p>\n<p>In his address at the ongoing COP26 in Glasgow, Modi announced a bold pledge on Monday that India will achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2070 and asserted that it is the only country that is delivering in &#8220;letter and spirit&#8221; the commitments on tackling climate change under the Paris Agreement.<\/p>\n<p>PM Modi also raised the Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) of achieving 450 gigawatt non-fossil energy capacity to 500 gigawatt, among other commitments including reducing carbon emissions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India Inc on Tuesday welcomed Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s pledge that the country will achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2070, terming it a &#8220;practical long-term target&#8221; and said the country is well on track to achieve the aspirational targets. In his address at the ongoing COP26 in Glasgow, Modi announced a bold pledge on Monday that India will achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2070 and asserted that it is the only country that is delivering in &#8220;letter and spirit&#8221; the commitments on tackling climate change under the Paris Agreement. PM Modi also raised the Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) [&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-447349","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\/447349","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=447349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}