India and China both on Saturday refrained from signing the pledge at the COP28 climate summit to triple the world’s renewable energy capacity by 2030 even though New Delhi already committed to it as part of its G20 presidency.
During the UN’s climate talks here, 118 countries committed to tripling the global renewable energy capacity by 2030 in a highly endorsed initiative.
This ambitious goal aims to reduce the reliance on fossil fuels in the world’s overall energy production.
The countries which backed the pledge included Japan, Australia, Canada, Chile, Brazil, Nigeria, and Barbados.
Although China and India have expressed endorsement for the threefold increase in renewable energy by 2030, neither of them formally supported the comprehensive pledge on Saturday.
This commitment involves scaling up clean power alongside a decrease in the utilisation of fossil fuels.
The pledge called for phase down of unabated coal power and putting an end to the financing of new coal-fired pow
