Prime minister also makes major commitment to generating 500GW of non-fossil fuel energy by 2030
India will meet a target of net zero emissions by 2070, the country’s prime minister has told the Cop26 global climate summit.
Speaking at the world leaders’ summit at the UN conference in Glasgow, Narendra Modi made five key pledges for how India would decarbonise over the next few decades. India, a developing country of more than 1.3 billion people, is the world’s third largest emitter of carbon dioxide after the US and China.
