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posted by martyb on Tuesday October 04 2016, @05:27AM   Printer-friendly
from the a-breath-of-fresh-air dept.

One of the world's largest polluters has signed onto the Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change:

India, one of the world's largest greenhouse gas emitters, has ratified the Paris global climate agreement. Under the deal, India has committed to ensuring that at least 40% of its electricity will be generated from non-fossil sources by 2030.

[...] The Paris deal is the world's first comprehensive climate agreement. It will only come into force legally after it is ratified by at least 55 countries which between them produce at least 55% of global carbon emissions. Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced last month that India would ratify the agreement on 2 October, the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, the leader of the struggle for independence from Britain.

Also at the UN News Centre, NPR, and DW.


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  • (Score: 2) by Aiwendil on Tuesday October 04 2016, @04:38PM

    by Aiwendil (531) on Tuesday October 04 2016, @04:38PM (#410065) Journal

    Well, another use for Pu is as a driver/seed in a thorium-reactor (or any breeder) - which India has stated it plans on doing.

    Might also be worth pointing out that india has put 14 of their reactors under safeguards in the last seven years - 12 of those has online-refuelling... And they still have enough non-safeguarded capacity for it to be silly to worry about more production reactors..

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