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Indiaโ€™s emerged as responsible global voice on climate change: President

India has emerged as a responsible global voice on the issue of climate change and its ambitions are a testimony to the countryโ€™s sensitivity towards nature, President Ram Nath Kovind said on Monday. Addressing a joint sitting of both houses of Parliament, Kovind said climate change is a challenge confronting the whole world and lauded the government for announcing Indiaโ€™s ambitious targets to combat it.

โ€œClimate change is a major challenge confronting the whole world at present. India has emerged as a responsible global voice on the subject. At the CoP-26 summit, my government has announced that by 2030 India will reduce its carbon emission by 1 billion tonnes.

โ€œIndia has also committed to a target of becoming a net zero emission economy by 2070. India has also taken the initiative of โ€˜Green Grid Initiative: One Sun, One World, One Gridโ€™ with the global community. It is the first international network of globally interconnected solar power grids. Our ambitions and resolves towards the environment are a testimony of our sensitivity towards nature,โ€ the president said.

Indiaโ€™s commitments to the ambitious targets were announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the 26th climate summit held in Glasgow last year.

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