{"id":466382,"date":"2022-02-05T11:13:23","date_gmt":"2022-02-05T05:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=466382"},"modified":"2022-02-05T11:13:23","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T05:43:23","slug":"budget-takes-a-green-turn-towards-net-zero-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/budget-takes-a-green-turn-towards-net-zero-target\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget takes a green turn towards net zero target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The finance minister used the words &#8216;green&#8217;, &#8216;clean&#8217;, &#8216;sustainable&#8217; and &#8216;carbon-neutral&#8217; economy multiple times in her 90-minute budget speech on Tuesday, underlining the importance the government is according to sustainability and decarbonisation goals.<\/p>\n<p>As per the International Energy Agency, India was the third-largest polluter-nation with nearly 2.35 giga tonnes of carbon emissions in 2021, though one of the lowest on per capita basis. Further, considering India&#8217;s strong developmental agenda and growth aspirations, big policy initiatives and investments are crucial to achieve &#8216;net-zero&#8217; target.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The finance minister used the words &#8216;green&#8217;, &#8216;clean&#8217;, &#8216;sustainable&#8217; and &#8216;carbon-neutral&#8217; economy multiple times in her 90-minute budget speech on Tuesday, underlining the importance the government is according to sustainability and decarbonisation goals. As per the International Energy Agency, India was the third-largest polluter-nation with nearly 2.35 giga tonnes of carbon emissions in 2021, though one of the lowest on per capita basis. Further, considering India&#8217;s strong developmental agenda and growth aspirations, big policy initiatives and investments are crucial to achieve &#8216;net-zero&#8217; target.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466382","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}