G20 leaders paid their respects to Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi as their summit came to a close Sunday, a day after the group added a new member and reached an agreement on a range of issues but softened their language on Russia's war in Ukraine.
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00:00 The G20 countries have declared an ambitious deal to triple their capacities of renewable
00:05 energy by 2030.
00:08 The increase of renewables is described as one of the crucial means to reach the planet's
00:12 ultimate eco-goal and delay the planet's temperature increase.
00:17 India, the host of this year's summit, announced green growth as one of the seven priorities
00:22 of this year's budget.
00:25 It's really critical that we are investing in biofuels with the lowest carbon footprint,
00:29 so those are the advanced biofuel pathways, the second generation advanced biofuel pathways,
00:36 rather than the crop-based biofuel pathways that compete with land and have very significant
00:41 upstream emission impacts.
00:43 The summit managed to defy expectations by reaching consensus, but not without compromises
00:48 over the war in Ukraine and action on climate change.
00:51 But G20 leaders fell short of an agreement that would decrease countries' dependence
00:55 on fossil fuels.
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