Part of: GS Prelims and GS-II – International relations & GS- III – Climate change
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Indian Prime Minister addressed the Climate Adaptation Summit 2021 recently.
Hosted by: Netherlands
Key takeaways
The summit will have a significant focus on securing new investments to ensure that millions of smallholder farmers can adapt to the stresses of climate on food production.
During the summit, it was said that India is targeting 450 gigawatt of renewable energy capacity by 2030.
It is also promoting LED lights and saving 38 million tons of carbon-di-oxide emissions annually.
India is going to restore 26 million hectares of degraded land by 2030.
Clean cooking fuel is being provided to 80 million rural households.
64 million households are being connected to piped water supply.
