PM: With renewables push, India to cut carbon footprint by 35%

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said that the country was moving briskly forward in its efforts to "reduce its carbon footprint by 30-35%" and exuded confidence that the target of renewable energy production would be achieved "before time". Modi said efforts were on to improve the share of natural gas fourfold this decade and to double the oil refining capacity in the next five years.