Sustainability through renewable energy: Comparing India and Singapore

Last week, at an event coinciding with Earth Day (April 22), US President Joe Biden hosted a climate conference with other world leaders, urging them to cooperate in the global effort to tackle the climate crisis.

At the Leaders’ Summit on Climate, he committed his country to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 50 per cent by 2030, doubling the target it set under the 2015 Paris Agreement.

Leaders of countries such as Brazil, Canada, India, Japan and the UK made new pledges or re-affirmed their earlier promises to help save the planet from environmental catastrophe.

Prior to the conference, the UK had already announced its own plans to reduce carbon emissions by 78 per cent of 1990 levels by 2035. This brings forward the previous target by 15 years.

The Prime Ministers of Japan and Canada also committed to significantly increase their earlier commitments to reducing carbon emissions and will target net zero emissions by 2050. Japan is the world’s fifth-largest emitter of carbon dioxide and Canada the eleventh.

Brazil’s President, Jair Bolsonaro, in a change from his previous stance, promised to end illegal deforestation in the country by 2030 and be carbon neutral by 2050.