COP26: "By 2070 India will achieve the target of net-zero emissions," Modi says | DW News

With world leaders gathered in Glasgow to discuss the climate emergency this week, all eyes are on the biggest polluters. It’s been six years since the landmark Paris agreement, when almost 200 countries agreed to combat rising temperatures. And the score card is bad. Most countries are failing to reduce emissions fast enough.

India is the world’s third largest carbon emitter, so there was great interest when Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, took the stage. This is the statement that got everyone’s attention: "By 2070 India will achieve the target of net-zero emissions."
He also listed a five-point plan to put India on the pathway to net zero.

Modi says India will meet the following milestones in the next nine years - by 2030.

- Increase its non-fossil fuel energy capacity to 500 gigawatts;
- Transition to 50 percent renewable energy sources;
- Reduce projected carbon emissions by one billion tons;
- Reduce the economy’s carbon intensity by 45 percent;

To reach carbon zero by 2070, they need to adhere to these milestones.

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