{"id":448450,"date":"2021-11-09T08:29:33","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T02:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=448450"},"modified":"2021-11-09T08:57:53","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T03:27:53","slug":"one-bankrupt-industry-leaves-80-bln-hole-in-indias-climate-pledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/one-bankrupt-industry-leaves-80-bln-hole-in-indias-climate-pledge\/","title":{"rendered":"One bankrupt industry leaves $80 bln hole in India&#8217;s climate pledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to saving the planet, the ambition of India\u2019s reach is praiseworthy. The challenge lies in the weakness of its grasp.<\/p>\n<p>After emphasizing for years that a pathway to going green was more important than a deadline, India surprised delegates at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow by announcing a net zero goal for emissions by 2070. More onerous than that longer-term commitment is the intention to use non-fossil-fuel sources for half of its energy needs by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a daunting target. The share of renewables in the country\u2019s current energy mix is only 12%. Besides, the third-largest emitter would guzzle 2.5 trillion kilowatt-hours of electricity annually by 2030, almost double what it required at the start of the decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to saving the planet, the ambition of India\u2019s reach is praiseworthy. The challenge lies in the weakness of its grasp. After emphasizing for years that a pathway to going green was more important than a deadline, India surprised delegates at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow by announcing a net zero goal for emissions by 2070. More onerous than that longer-term commitment is the intention to use non-fossil-fuel sources for half of its energy needs by 2030. It\u2019s a daunting target. The share of renewables in the country\u2019s current energy mix is only 12%. Besides, the third-largest [&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-448450","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\/448450","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=448450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}