India's Prime Minister has delivered a devastating blow to the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow by admitting his country won't reach net zero by 2070.
Narendra Modi told the summit India will increase its non fossil energy capacity to 500 GW by 2030 and it will get half of its energy from renewable resources by the same date.
This was one of five pledges he listed at the world leaders' summit at the SEC. One of the main objectives of the summit is for the world to reach net zero by 2050.
Modi also pledged that India will reduce its projected carbon emissions by one billion tonnes between now and 2030, and reduce the carbon intensity of its economy by 45 per cent.
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