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India in solar energy push as climate plan launched

01 July 2008 | Fab and Facilities: News From Around The Web | Source: google.com

India on Monday released a national plan to tackle climate change with a focus on renewable energy, but stuck by its refusal to specify targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

Under the National Action Plan on Climate Change, the country will gradually move towards renewable sources of energy and focus on solar energy.

"We must pioneer a graduated shift from economic activity based on fossil fuels to one based on non-fossil fuels and from reliance on non-renewable... to renewable sources of energy," Premier Manmohan Singh said at the launch.

"In this strategy, the sun occupies centre stage, as it should, being literally the original source of all energy," Singh said. 

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