Glasgow: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has placed India in a position where he can guide the world in the face of the climate change crisis, the Environment Minister United States Bhupender Yadav said here on Friday.
Yadav, who was in Glasgow for the 26th International Cop 26 climate conference, said he was honored to represent India in negotiations and was also overwhelmed to see the impact of the initiative and the idea of the prime minister.
“Prime Minister Narendra Modi has placed India in a position where the country has guided the world in the face of the climate change crisis,” said Yadav.
“While at the Paris Climate Conference, the Prime Minister has urged the world to increase.
Forest areas, reduce carbon emissions and push alternative energy sources, at the ongoing COP26 conference at Glasgow, Scotland, he took the promise of ‘Picamrit’ or a five-nectar element in Indian war against climate change, “Yadav shares on his blog ‘COP 26 Diary’.
“Commitment ‘Picamrit’ made by our respected Prime Minister seeks to increase Indian non-fossil fuel-based energy capacity to 500 gw by 2030, ensuring that 50 percent of the country’s energy requirements will be met with renewable.
Energy sources in the same year , reduce the total carbon emissions projected by one billion tons, reduce the intensity of economic carbon to less than 45 percent and ultimately, achieve net zero emissions in 2070.
“I got the privilege of representing India in negotiations in Glasgow and also overwhelmed to see The impact of initiatives and ideas PM has created on world leaders, “he said.
The minister said that the ‘vision of Picamrit’ was conveyed by the Prime Minister Modi “will introduce a global community with new Indian capabilities.” “The BJP National Work Committee congratulated the Prime Minister to show the world in front and made India of leading stakeholders in the war against climate change,” he wrote on his blog.
The Minister of Environment attended a side event organized by the International Solar Alliance (ISA) on Thursday and reaffirmed the vision of the prime minister.
He said he emphasized the fact that “we must return to the Sun to save the earth.
When the world develops to reach a newer economic and social height, solar energy will power the transition.” Previously at Glasgow, Isa, Indian presidency from Isa, And the British COP presidency launched a plan for the first international network of interconnected global solar power, known as the “Green Grids Initiative” at the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow.
“On a side event, I declare that the development of sustainable and climate change mitigation is the core of the Green Grids initiative and that the project scale can be very well made it the next biggest modern engineering miracle,” he said.
The project aims to reduce dependence on non-renewable energy such as coal by enabling and popularizing affordable solar power use from other countries.
This announcement was accompanied by the “One Sun” declaration, which was passed by 83 ISA member countries.
India can guide the world in dealing with climate change: Yadav Minister of Environment
