{"id":86942,"date":"2019-08-27T17:34:10","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T12:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=9552"},"modified":"2019-08-27T17:34:10","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T12:04:10","slug":"g7-summit-pm-modi-highlights-indias-efforts-towards-eliminating-single-use-plastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/g7-summit-pm-modi-highlights-indias-efforts-towards-eliminating-single-use-plastic\/","title":{"rendered":"G7 Summit: PM Modi highlights India\u2019s efforts towards eliminating single use plastic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>At a special session on \u2018Biodiversity, Oceans\nand Climate\u2019 during the G7 summit in France, Indian Prime Minister highlighted\nthe country\u2019s &nbsp;efforts to eliminate single-use\nplastic, conserve water, harness solar energy and, protect the flora and fauna\nfor a sustainable development. <\/li><li>Indian Prime Minister also sought the setting up\nof a global coalition of disaster resilient infrastructure. Further, he\nadvocated creation of a pool of trained volunteers to help people recover after\na natural disaster.<\/li><li>Indian Prime Minister also asserted that India\nwould achieve, within the next two years, its climate change goals set under\nParis Agreement. <\/li><li>As a commitment to the Paris Agreement (2015),\nnations have to put forward national climate actions they intend to take to\nreduce national emissions and adapt to the impacts of climate change. These are\ncalled Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs).<\/li><li>India\u2019s INDCs include a) reduce the greenhouse\ngas emissions intensity of its GDP by 33% to 35% by 2030 from 2005 level,\nb)increase total cumulative electricity generation from fossil free energy\nsources to 40% by 2030, c) create additional carbon sink of 2.5 to 3 billion\ntons through additional forest and tree cover.<\/li><li>The Paris agreement (2015) is an international\nagreement with the framework of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate\nChange. It seeks to combat climate change and accelerate the actions and\ninvestments needed for a sustainable low carbon future. India ratified the\nParis Agreement on climate change in 2016.<\/li><li>The Group of 7(G7) is a group consisting of\nCanada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom and the United States.\nIndia is not a member of G7 and is a special invitee at the recent G&amp;\nsummit.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a special session on \u2018Biodiversity, Oceans and Climate\u2019 during the G7 summit in France, Indian Prime Minister highlighted the country\u2019s &nbsp;efforts to eliminate single-use plastic, conserve water, harness solar energy and, protect the flora and fauna for a sustainable development. Indian Prime Minister also sought the setting up of a global coalition of disaster&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/g7-summit-pm-modi-highlights-indias-efforts-towards-eliminating-single-use-plastic\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">G7 Summit: PM Modi highlights India\u2019s efforts towards eliminating single use plastic<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182],"tags":[4652,4653],"class_list":["post-86942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-biodiversity-oceans-and-climate","tag-g7","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704793921},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}