Sustainable city to be established on some of India's prime farmland

On October 22, 2015 India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of a new city in a banana grove 13 km southwest of Vijayawada and less than 2 km south of the Krishna river. The ceremony marked the beginning of a dream project for the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, N. Chandrababu Naidu, to develop an international class city in India.

A substantial section of the old state of Andhra Pradesh in southern India was carved out into a new state, Telangana, on June 2, 2014. Telangana got Hyderabad — the erstwhile capital of united Andhra Pradesh — as its own capital. The new, smaller, Andhra Pradesh either had to choose another city for its own capital, or build a new one. It has chosen to build a city to be called Amaravati.

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Modi wants something both 'comprehensive and concrete' at Paris

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ndia’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, called on Thursday for a “comprehensive and concrete” agreement on climate change in December, as he addressed African leaders at a major summit in New Delhi.

India's PM, Narendra Modi- he wants
 something both "comprehensive and
concrete" to come out of Paris.

Modi said no one had contributed less to global warming than India and Africa, warning that “the excess of (the) few cannot become the burden of many”.

He was speaking as world leaders prepare to meet in Paris in December to try to reach an agreement on tackling climate change, with the goal of capping warming at two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) over pre-Industrial Revolution levels.

“We are each making enormous efforts with our modest resources to combat climate change,” said the Indian premier in a wide-ranging speech to delegates from all 54 African Union nations in New Delhi.

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India plans for leap ahead with its sustainability plans

 

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rime Minister Narendra Modi has announced India will leap forward with an impressive sustainability plan.

The country is expected to increase its solar energy fivefold over the course of the next seven years.

With a current output of 4.5 gigawatts, the country plans to expand its national solar energy generation to 100 gigawatts by 2022.

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India and China call on rich countries to step up carbon reduction efforts

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hina and India, the world’s first and third biggest greenhouse gas emitters projected a united front on climate change on Friday with a rare joint statement that asked rich countries to step up efforts to reduce global carbon emissions.

The statement, issued by the two largest developing nations during Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to China, asked wealthy countries to provide finance, technology and other necessary support to emerging countries to help reduce their own emissions.

The Guardian - “China and India call on rich countries to step up climate change efforts” reports, “The two sides urged the developed countries to raise their pre-2020 emission reduction targets and honour their commitment to provide $100bn (£64bn) per year by 2020 to developing countries,” the statement said.