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Modi shifts on climate change with India renewables goal
2015-01-26 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said India is ready to expand its use of renewable energy as a way to reduce greenhouse gas pollution, a signal that his government is moving toward joining an international deal on global warming. After a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama in New Delhi, the prime minister said that his nation along with all others has an obligation to act on reducing the fossil-fuel emissions blamed for damaging the climate. The remarks represent a shift in Indias tone on...
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Obama & Modi link zero carbon and zero extreme poverty
2015-01-26 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: At a news conference wrapping up President Obama's visit in India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was asked whether he felt pressure from his guest to make a big pledge about tackling climate change, as China did a few months ago. "India is an independent country," he replied, "and there is no pressure on us from any country or any person." That might sound prickly, but what Modi said next might as well have come out of the mouth of Obama, a president who covets global warming progress as a jewel...
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Obama in India: PM Narendra Modi, Barack Obama strike alliance on climate change
2015-01-26 00:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Economic Times: US President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Narendra Modi have agreed to team up and combat climate change by cooperating to reduce air pollution in Indian cities and ramping up finance and technology for India's ambitious Rs 6 lakh crore renewable energy push. Obama stressed the importance of India's voice in climate talks and efforts to reach a global agreement on the issue. Modi said India was acting with a sense of responsibility towards future generations, not under international pressure....
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Modi no climate change pressure India after US-China pact
2015-01-25 21:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday India was not under pressure on climate change after the US and China signed an emissions deal, but added global warming itself was reason to take action. India, the world's third largest emitter of greenhouse gases, has resisted pressure to commit to a timeline for capping emissions after China and the United States announced a bilateral pact in November. "India is an independent country. There is no pressure as such," Modi said after talks with...
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Bhopal survivors urge PM Modi, Obama to undertake course correction on gas disaster
2015-01-25 19:28:16| Chemicals - Topix.net
Five organisations working for the rights of the survivors of the Bhopal gas disaster today asked Prime Minister Modi and President Barack Obama to end the ongoing disaster in Bhopal in its fourth decade. On the occasion of Mr. Obama visit to India, the survivors asked both leaders to stop protecting corporate interests over the lives and health of ordinary people and sought reflection and course correction for ending the Bhopal disaster.
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