#: India’s Modi surprises COP26 climate summit with 2070 target for net-zero emissions

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi says his country will aim to stop emitting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere by 2070 — two decades after the U.S. and the European Union’s pledges and at least 10 years later than China.

Attention had been on Modi for such a pledge after he refused to offer one as recently as last week.

Modi, speaking…