Earlier this week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi stood on a global stage to announce climate commitments that surprised the world. Months after seemingly resisting the pressure from high-income countries to “do more” to save the planet, India changed its mind and offered the world more than what it was expecting.
The global stage in question is the 26th Conference of Parties (COP26) taking place in Glasgow right now. Countries have come together to figure out how to slow global warming, and even though these negotiations take place annually, the conference has taken on a new fervour since the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned that humanity will have already missed the bus, sending the earth down a path of irreversible man-made destruction, unless substantial action takes place now.Read More…
