![]() Yet, even with all UN plans added up, new and old, the world remains off-target. India is the world’s third largest emitter, but with our emissions per head only a fraction of America’s and China’s, we can hardly be expected to keep pace with their net-zero progress. By 2030, the country aims to spout 1 billion tonnes less of it than our current projection, have 500GW of non-fossil power capacity in place, get half its energy from renewables, and thereby run an economy that spews out 45% less carbon for each unit of output. Come 2070, we’ve effectively pledged to emit only as much of it as we soak up. ![]() As an air pollutant, carbon dioxide is a heat trap and therefore our top threat. ![]() The surprise of CoP-26, a United Nations huddle on the Earth’s future, has been Modi’s declaration of a target for India’s tryst with carbon neutrality. ![]() ![]() Amid nerves stretched thin by global forecasts of doom unless we took speedy action to stall climate change, some reproach was justifiably directed at rich nations in Glasgow by Prime Minister Narendra Modi for failing to chip in with the money they had promised for developing countries to affordably do their bit. ![]()
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