New Delhi: Addressing the US-convened Leaders’ Summit on Climate 2021 in virtual format on Thursday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for “concrete action at a high speed, on large scale, and with a global scope” to combat climate change, adding he and US President Joe Biden are launching the “India-US Climate and Clean Energy Agenda 2030 partnership” to help “mobilise investments, demonstrate clean technologies, and enable green collaborations”.
Earlier, opening the summit, President Biden said: “The United States sets out on the road to cut greenhouse gases in half — in half by the end of this decade. That’s where we’re headed as a nation … The signs are unmistakable. The science is undeniable. But the cost of inaction keeps mounting… I see an opportunity to create millions of good-paying, middle-class, union jobs.”
Prime Minister Modi, pointing out that “we, in India, are doing our part” and that India’s per capita carbon…