Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi on February 10, 2021 inaugurated World Sustainable Development Summit 2021 via video conferencing.
- The theme of the Summit is ‘Redefining our common future: Safe and secure environment for all’.
- The Prime Minister said that India is on track to exceed commitments and targets from Paris. He also said that India is committed to reduce emissions intensity of GDP by 33 to 35 percent from 2005 levels.
- He also shared that India is making steady progress on its commitment to Land Degradation Neutrality. Renewable energy is also picking speed in India. We are well on track to setting up four fifty giga watts of Renewable Energy generating capacity by Twenty Thirty.
- The 20th edition of The Energy and Resources Institute’s (TERI) flagship event, the World Sustainable Development Summit, is being held online from 10th-12th February, 2021.
- The Summit brings together a wide number of governments, business leaders, academicians, climate scientists, youth, and the civil society in the fight against climate change.
- India’s Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy and Ministry of Earth Sciences are key partners of the Summit.
