Published 09:20 IST, February 13th 2021

'India's commitment clear for Climate Change': US special convoy lauds PM Modi's efforts

US Special Envoy for Climate John Kerry hailed PM Modi's efforts to address climate issues in the world, during the World Sustainable Development Summit 2021.

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US Special Envoy for Climate John Kerry hailed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's efforts to dress climate issues in world, during World Sustainable Development Summit 2021, on Thursday. He tweeted that both nations have a great deal to gain from joining toger to confront climate crisis and intends to work "very, very closely with" with Indian leership including Prime Minister Modi and External Minister S Jaishankar.

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Kerry furr said that Modi's anuncement of a target of 450 gigawatts of renewable energy by 2030 is going to be one of most important contributions in world.

"PM Modi's anuncement of a target of 450 gigawatts (GW) of renewable energy by 2030 is a strong terrific example of how to power a growing ecomy with clean energy and it's going to be one of most important contributions in world because India today is alrey third-largest emitter in world," he said, reported ANI.

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US Special Envoy also mentioned that India has been a wonderful partner in vancing global ambitions from negotiations in Paris to current efforts leing to 26th Conference of Parties (COP26) in Glasgow. Emphasizing that PM Modi me a very important contribution to dialogue, Kerry said that India is a world leer in deployment of renewable energy and leership of International Solar Alliance was very critical for India and or growing ecomies of world.

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'World Sustainable Development Summit 2021'

20th edition of Energy and Resources Institute's (TERI) flagship event, World Sustainable Development Summit, took place online on February 10 and brought toger a wide number of governments, business leers, acemicians, climate scientists, youth, and civil society in fight against climate change.  me of Summit was `Redefining our common future: Safe and secure environment for all`. Energy and industry transition, aptation and resilience, nature-based solutions, climate finance, circular ecomy, clean oceans and air pollution, were amongst range of topics that were discussed during Summit.

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(With ANI Inputs)

09:20 IST, February 13th 2021