{"id":38612,"date":"2021-11-03T22:01:30","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T13:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/03\/indias-huge-uptake-in-solar-is-driving-more-ambitious-climate-goals-says-minister"},"modified":"2021-11-03T22:01:30","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T13:01:30","slug":"indias-huge-solar-uptake-has-boosted-climate-goals-says-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38612","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s huge solar uptake has boosted climate goals, says minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian foreign secretary says price and popularity of renewables behind Modi\u2019s 2070 net zero target<\/p>\n<p>The staggering take-up of solar power in India has enabled the prime minister, Narendra Modi, to announce a more ambitious climate plan at the Cop26 conference in Glasgow, according to the country\u2019s foreign secretary.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/01\/narendra-modi-pledges-india-will-reach-net-zero-emissions-by-2070\">India\u2019s commitment<\/a> to get half of its energy from renewables and to reach net zero by 2070 was arguably the most positive news from the opening phase of the UN gathering.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/03\/indias-huge-uptake-in-solar-is-driving-more-ambitious-climate-goals-says-minister\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian foreign secretary says price and popularity of renewables behind Modi\u2019s 2070 net zero targetThe staggering take-up of solar power in India has enabled the prime minister, Narendra Modi, to announce a more ambitious climate plan at the Cop26 conf&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":431,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[493,65,62,433,659,655,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-environment","category-india","category-narendra-modi","category-renewable-energy","category-solar-power","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/431"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38613,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38612\/revisions\/38613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}