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Glasgow COP26: Riding on 450 GW, India to ask for more carbon space

Fissures between developed and developing world expected to widen

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Indian ministers, such as Power and Renewable Energy Minister R K Singh, have said on several occasions that the western world should vacate the carbon space for the developing countries

Shreya Jai New Delhi
The global climate conference, CoP26, in Glasgow will see a clear divide between the developed and the developing world, with the latter holding the Global North accountable for climate financing and the developed countries expecting headline climate commitments from them in return.

“Net Zero” will be a key theme. A “Net Zero” tracker portal by the Energy & Climate Intelligence Unit and the University of Oxford indicates 135 countries, covering 62 per cent of the world’s population, have a “net zero” target year. There are 617 private companies that have also declared a net zero target.

India is not one

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