{"id":458460,"date":"2021-12-27T09:14:29","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T03:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=458460"},"modified":"2021-12-27T10:28:11","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T04:58:11","slug":"the-green-deal-renewable-energy-became-the-new-buzzword-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/the-green-deal-renewable-energy-became-the-new-buzzword-in-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"The green deal: Renewable energy became the new buzzword in 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow (COP26) brought together 120 world leaders. Prime Minister Narendra Modi used the occasion to announce 2070 as India\u2019s target to reach net-zero carbon emissions, two decades beyond what scientists say is needed to avert catastrophic climate impacts. India also committed to use renewable energy to meet 50% of its energy needs and reduce carbon emission by 1 billion tonnes by 2030. The talks ended with a deal to address the climate crisis but only after a last-minute intervention by India \u2014 backed by China and other coal-reliant nations \u2014 calling on parties to accelerate efforts to \u201cphase down\u201d rather than \u201cphase out\u201d coal power, the single largest source of greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow (COP26) brought together 120 world leaders. Prime Minister Narendra Modi used the occasion to announce 2070 as India\u2019s target to reach net-zero carbon emissions, two decades beyond what scientists say is needed to avert catastrophic climate impacts. India also committed to use renewable energy to meet 50% of its energy needs and reduce carbon emission by 1 billion tonnes by 2030. The talks ended with a deal to address the climate crisis but only after a last-minute intervention by India \u2014 backed by China and other coal-reliant nations \u2014 calling on parties to [&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-458460","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\/458460","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=458460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}