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India-G7 JETP stuck over coal, Centre's insistence on own transition plan

RE, tech transfer & green jobs on India's agenda, Germany & the US to co-lead the negotiations

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According to India's updated NDC submitted this August, 50 per cent of its installed electric power capacity will come from non-fossil sources by 2030.

Shreya Jai New Delhi
Global efforts to bring India on board the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) with G7 nations had failed to move forward, as the Centre has refused to put 'coal phase-out' on the negotiation table and wants to design its own “transition plan”. Germany and the US are the two G7 nations that are co-leading the negotiations with India to join JETP, said sources. 

Till date, neither has any funding amount been decided nor have the broad contours of negotiations been worked out. Following the initial proposals by the two nations earlier this year, the Indian government has not got back

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