Modi taking impressive climate actions: British envoy on Glasgow summit
Just ahead of nations descending on Glasgow for the UN Climate Change Conference, COP26, with the UK presidency’s key objective as keeping the goal of limiting temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius within reach, British High Commissioner Alex Ellis said India, under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is already taking impressive climate action — quadrupling wind and solar capacity in the last decade.
India has already proved that it has the innovation and political will to follow a sustainable development path. Also India has a huge opportunity to use new tech to pioneer a clean development path, he said.
In an exclusive interview with IANS here just hours before the official start of COP26 with calls for concrete climate action in Glasgow coming from all sectors, the High Commissioner to India said: “We have a packed agenda given that there hasn’t been a COP for two years. Our expectations and aims are driven by science.”
“The international scientific consensus is that the world is running out of time to avert great harm to ourselves and our planet, through climate change.
