Can India actually deliver on its bold climate promises? | The Stream
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Indiaâs Prime Minister Narendra Modi surprised the world this month by pledging to make a substantial shift to green energy by 2030 and achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2070.
Advocates say the new goals are ambitious but necessary. India is ranked among the worldâs most vulnerable countries when it comes to climate change. In recent years, it has been hit with myriad climate-related disasters, including incessant rainfall, deadly flooding and intense heat waves.
Currently, even though it is home to one-fifth of the worldâs population, India is only responsible for 6 percent of global emissions. But the country is also the worldâs third-largest carbon emitter, and has been ramping up coal consumption to fuel its booming economy.
Experts say reconciling the need to reduce emissions while meeting the energy demands of nearly 1.4 billion people will require detailed plans and a huge financial commitment in renewables. In this episode of The Stream we ask, can India actually deliver on its bold climate promises?
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Thanks for watching everyone. Tell us what you think about India's pledges in the comments below.
We indian always delivery what we promise
The answer is a resounding NO. This place mutated the covid virus to create the most destructive variant, truly showing how filthy and polluted it is. It's 18th century England at is best.
Dear Climate Migrants, please come to Germany. We need you and we have space for ALL immigrants
Please send all refugees to Germany, thank you so much! 
QATAR ( which funds Al-Jazeera also) is one of the most polluted country as per "per capita emission" . When will Al Jazeera will make a documentary on that.
For Al Jazeera , only The Wire, The quint exist as a media house
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,âĻrapist Mohammad
Dear Indian..
.. It's pollution levels is as same as some European countries which do a good work to reduce co2 emissionsâĻâĻ So believe in yourself, their hate speech to us will help us to build a good future for 
India.
Don't pay attention to some people hate comment to us.. We can show them by works we don't need to argue with themâĻ. Because they don't know what happening in IndiaâĻ We can see solar panel everywhere.. Now. Every government employees have solar panels in their houseâĻ They do not know what are we doing.. We are planting trees where they are busy to criticise usâĻ.. India may be the third polluter nowâĻ But per capita co2 emissions of India is way more low than othersâĻ They will not critics America,Russia, china, Arab for pollution they blame usâĻ Recently a news in BBC show the pollution map of the whole worldâĻ There we can see India is in yellow
Jai hind
Ever criticised?! Your godfather china?!!! For corona?! And co2 emissions?!!!!! Lol
Long journey India
Situation of India is under control
I'm skeptical for the poor they're always most affected. But I think overall they will do it
3rd biggest polluter ??????? Really ?????? So the sheer size of population and its proportion to emission doesn't matter ? per capita should come into playâĻ..
Yes you can we need to start making these corporations responsible for the contamination and pollution and causing global warming and it is also the government's responsibility and they too are at fault for letting this happen for decades and generations they too are the highest paid for foreign aid money where did it all go when these people are sitting back starving in the farmers are helping them and find my information on my universal Life Church ministry page I'm a priest Christy Biswas Facebook
Modi is no1fraud. From India
They Invited a journalist from The Wire
Islamic brotherhood 
india is no.1 when it comes to Fake promises
Why do you call teenager as activists? Because they have stamina to hold posters? Invite the experts not the "teenager" activists, plz
Please sir
Dear Climate Migrants, please come to Germany. We need you and we have space for ALL immigrants
Please send all refugees to Germany, thank you so much! 
After Diwali lot of change in climate. And all burnings are regulated.
Modi is random man, events lover, big in announcement but poor on delivery, Indian modi government was failed to install new oxygen plants in 2020 which were proposed to be installed after 1st covid19 wave,
modi declared India prior to 2nd covid wave as win over covid19 in 2021
So the point is don't take him seriously, he is bluff master
Al Jazeera please donât interview journalist from The wire , Quint , etc they are truly brain dead .
Plese make documentaries on quarter . how worker from Pakistan Bangladesh and India died in construction of Olympics playground . Which held in 2023.
Solar energy is cheapest today. So, It is foolish to argue for coal, citing economic development ad the reason.
isi liye gaza mein tum logon ki building udd gaya tha
That guy with the glasses is so annoying. Right? Ok? Right? Ok? Right? Ok? Right? Ok? He sounds like a robot
It's very difficult to belive on al Jazeera
Totally bias media.
Shame on you people
You are disgrace for freedom of media