The UK will host COP26, the 26th UN climate talks between the parties, from 31 October until 12 November 2021.
On top of the government-announced 175 GW of renewable energy capacity, India announced plans to target 450 GW of installed renewable capacity by 2030.
Days before last year’s COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, UK, India stated that setting net CO2 Emissions Goals was not the way to address climate change.
Few US states are as powerful as California, home to 40 million people, and which would be the fifth-largest economy in the world if it existed as a nation.
“India is one of the least” says Pandey.
Several other leaders travelling to Glasgow also come from areas dependent on oil and gas as a major contributor to the economy.
India is already headed towards the best infrastructure and policy it can deliver, Pandey added.
But environmentalists have long argued that such reviews are oversimplified, ignoring the cumulative implications of leasing vast swathers of land in several states and off the Gulf of Mexico coast for oil, gas, and coal extraction.
