India Defends Emissions Targets as Modi Heads to Paris for Talks
- India's top priority is electricity for all, spokesman says
- Study shows India meeting its fair share more than U.S., EU
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India’s government rejected criticism that its climate targets could be met without any new policy commitments, saying its goals are sufficiently ambitious considering the country’s stage of development.
"Our overriding imperative is to ensure access to adequate and affordable electricity to all of our citizens," Ajay Mathur, spokesman for India’s official climate delegation and director general of the Bureau of Energy Efficiency, said in an e-mail to Bloomberg News.