India unveils plan to cut rate of greenhouse gas emissions

New Delhi

UNDER growing pressure to join in an international accord to battle climate change, India on Thursday announced its long-term plan to lower its rate of planet-warming greenhouse gas pollution and to aggressively ramp up its production of solar, hydropower and wind energy.

India, the world's third largest carbon polluter, was the last major country to issue its plan before a major summit meeting in Paris in December aimed at forging a sweeping new accord that would for the first time commit every country on Earth to enacting new policies to cut fossil fuel emissions.