{"id":304555,"date":"2018-10-23T05:16:36","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T05:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=304555"},"modified":"2018-10-23T05:16:36","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T05:16:36","slug":"invest-india-wins-top-un-award-for-promoting-renewable-energy-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/invest-india-wins-top-un-award-for-promoting-renewable-energy-investment\/","title":{"rendered":"Invest India Wins Top UN Award for Promoting Renewable Energy Investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-304556 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Invest-India-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"362\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/Invest-India-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/Invest-India-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/Invest-India-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/Invest-India.jpg 875w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/Invest-India-630x420.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 362px) 100vw, 362px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Invest India received the top UN Investment Promotion Award in recognition of its efforts to boost investments in the renewable energy sector in India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The award was presented on Monday in Geneva at the inauguration of the World Investment Forum organised by the UN Convention on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe award recognizes the excellence in boosting investment into sectors that will have social and economic benefits and help countries meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs),\u201d said UNCTAD.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cJudges gave Invest India the award for its fineness in servicing and supporting a major global wind turbines company in the establishment of a blade manufacturing plant in India while committing to train local staff and produce 1 gigawatt of renewable energy. Implementation of the project is anticipated to reduce India&#8217;s wind energy cost significantly,\u201d UNCTAD added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Bahrain Economic Development Board and the Lesotho National Development Corp were the other award winners.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Invest India received the top UN Investment Promotion Award in recognition of its efforts to boost investments in the renewable energy sector in India. The award was presented on Monday in Geneva at the inauguration of the World Investment Forum organised by the UN Convention on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). \u201cThe award recognizes the excellence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":304556,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[6727,6725,6728,6729,6726],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304555"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304555"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304558,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304555\/revisions\/304558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/304556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}