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        di’s announcement on net-zero  ister said it’s an article of faith  Our future generations would              happy lives,” he added.
        emissions  is  “very  significant  for him and if you see right at  be saved from a worse situation               India on Thursday urged
        for India and the rest of the  the end of his speech, the prime  that could arise due to current              the global community to make
        world.”                              minister says that we are doing  climate change problems and             solar power the priority in en-
            Foreign Secretary, during  it for our future generations.  that they would lead secure and                ergy deployment at the COP26
        the  briefing,  also  said  that                                                                              climate summit.
        “Prime Minister Modi has out-                                                                                     Minister of Environment,
        lined very clearly, India’s own,                                                                              Forest and Climate Change Bh-
        let’s say our own progression                                                                                 upender Yadav, who represent-
        that has led up to the net-ze-                                                                                ed India in the special event or-
        ro situation and he has said                                                                                  ganized by International Solar
        that what is our own situation,                                                                               Alliance (ISA) in partnership
        we are essentially develop-                                                                                   with the United Kingdom un-
        ing countries. Our focus is on                                                                                der the theme Green Grid Ini-
        bringing billions of our citizens                                                                             tiative  -  One  Sun  One World
        out of poverty.”                                                                                              One Grid (GGI-OSOWOG)
            “We are working night and                                                                                 urged that grid interconnection
        day to ease standard of living in                                                                             will play a key role in revamp-
        India for our citizens,” he said.                                                                             ing regional cooperation and
        “We are constituting 17 per                                                                                   transition to the low carbon
        cent of the world’s population,                                                                               power system.
        yet  we  contribute  only  5%  to                                                                                 In a keynote speech, Yadav
        global emissions. And yet, we                                                                                 emphasized investment in grid
        are contributing very readily to                                                                              expansion  and  modernization
        the entire overall issue of cli-       Modi interacts with US President Joe Biden and European Commission     with emphasis on solar which
        mate change. Because we be-          President Ursula von der Leyen during the Build Black Better for the World   will enable transition in the
        lieve in it, as I say, Prime Min-                (B3W) event at COP26 Summit, in Glasgow (ANI)                global energy value change.


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