Modi and Hollande launch global solar alliance in Paris

“We look to the developed countries to mobilise $100 billion annually by 2020 for mitigation and adaptation”, the prime minister said.

The main objective of this two-weeks long conference is for nations to reach an agreement on how to stop global temperature from rising above two degrees Celsius over preindustrial levels, and avert the deadliest consequences of climate change.

Modi is to launch a 122-country solar alliance with Hollande.

The prime minister, who said climate change was a major global challenge, also launched a coffee table book “Parampara”.

As the Paris climate summit begins, Prime Minister Modi is poised to unveil a solar partnership, leading a group of over a hundred countries for a radical solar energy plan that can inject momentum in the tricky negotiations; most of which rest on securing the rights of countries to develop. In the speech he made some pretty astounding claims and suggestions about India’s future in Energy and renewable energy along with outlining the greater responsibility that rests over developed nations. “Technology is evolving and costs are coming down”, Modi said.

After talks with Modi, Obama told reporters he and Modi had agreed climate change was an urgent threat and also that India also had to be able to grow.

India has announced that it aims at achieving around 40 per cent cumulative electric power installed capacity from non-fossil fuel-based energy resources by 2030.

Leonie Greene, Head of External Affairs at the Solar Trade Association, said: “The UK will pay a very heavy price in lost economic opportunities if we marginalise ourselves from the extraordinary global rise of solar power”. He said when nature is in equilibrium, lives of people and the world will be in balance.

Our commitment to tackle climate change arises from our timeless traditions and beliefs. Want to make conventional energy cleaner and renewable energy cheaper.

In 1997, Kyoto Protocol – a resolution formed after a climate conference in Japan – set binding targets for carbon emission.

One of the stumbling blocks to getting an inclusive agreement to fight climate change has been the United States’ reluctance to accept that some countries should be obliged to do more than others, while nations such as India have objected to restrictions on their development.

The world is for everyone’s needs, but not for anyone’s greed, this is what we learn from Mahatma Gandhi..