{"id":116724,"date":"2018-03-24T10:27:35","date_gmt":"2018-03-24T04:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org\/?p=116724"},"modified":"2018-03-24T10:27:35","modified_gmt":"2018-03-24T04:57:35","slug":"pm-suggests-turning-vedas-combat-climate-change-pti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=116724","title":{"rendered":"PM suggests turning to Vedas to combat climate change | PTI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister\u00a0Narendra\u00a0Modi\u00a0on Sunday at the Founding Conference of the International Solar Alliance, suggested looking back to the Vedas in a bid to combat climate change.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Vedas consider the Sun as the soul of the world, it has been considered as a life nurturer. Today, for combating climate change, we need to look at this ancient idea to find a way,&#8221; the\u00a0Prime Minister\u00a0said here.<\/p>\n<p>He also suggested measures to increase the consumption of\u00a0solar energy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To promote the use of solar energy, the availability of technology and development, economic resources, reduction in prices, development of storage technology, mass manufacturing, and innovation require a complete ecosystem,&#8221; PM\u00a0Modi\u00a0said.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister\u00a0Modi\u00a0and French\u00a0President\u00a0Emmanuel Macron\u00a0on Sunday co-chaired the first founding conference of the ISA in New Delhi&#8217;s\u00a0Rashtrapati Bhavan.<\/p>\n<p>The summit was attended by\u00a0United Nations\u00a0Secretary-General\u00a0Antonio Guterres,\u00a0External Affairs Minister\u00a0Sushma Swaraj, Venezuelan\u00a0President\u00a0Nicolas Maduro\u00a0and\u00a0Bangladesh\u00a0President\u00a0Abdul Hamid, among other dignitaries from over 50 countries.<\/p>\n<p id=\"auto_disclaimer\">(This story has not been edited by Global Press staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister\u00a0Narendra\u00a0Modi\u00a0on Sunday at the Founding Conference of the International Solar Alliance, suggested looking back to the Vedas in a bid to combat climate change. &#8220;Vedas consider the Sun as the soul of the world, it has been considered as a life nurturer. Today, for combating climate change, we need to look at this ancient [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}