{"id":517191,"date":"2022-08-27T09:35:23","date_gmt":"2022-08-27T04:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=517191"},"modified":"2022-08-27T10:02:06","modified_gmt":"2022-08-27T04:32:06","slug":"gail-targets-net-zero-carbon-emissions-by-2040-chairman-manoj-jain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/gail-targets-net-zero-carbon-emissions-by-2040-chairman-manoj-jain\/","title":{"rendered":"GAIL targets net-zero carbon emissions by 2040: Chairman Manoj Jain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GAIL (India) Ltd, the nation&#8217;s largest gas firm, is targeting net-zero carbon emission from its operations by 2040, ahead of targets by other state-owned firms, chairman Manoj Jain said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Net zero, or becoming carbon neutral, means not adding to the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>India, the world&#8217;s fourth biggest emitter of carbon dioxide after China, the US and the EU, has committed to cut its emissions to net zero by 2070.<\/p>\n<p>And GAIL&#8217;s target for 2040 is a step in aiding that.<\/p>\n<p>GAIL &#8220;is committed to reduce its carbon footprint by diversifying into the renewable energy sector,&#8221; Jain said at the firm&#8217;s annual shareholders&#8217; meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GAIL (India) Ltd, the nation&#8217;s largest gas firm, is targeting net-zero carbon emission from its operations by 2040, ahead of targets by other state-owned firms, chairman Manoj Jain said on Friday. Net zero, or becoming carbon neutral, means not adding to the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. India, the world&#8217;s fourth biggest emitter of carbon dioxide after China, the US and the EU, has committed to cut its emissions to net zero by 2070. And GAIL&#8217;s target for 2040 is a step in aiding that. GAIL &#8220;is committed to reduce its carbon footprint by diversifying into the renewable [&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":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517191","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=517191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}