The US abandoned climate leadership. Can India step up?

Renewables will be key to meeting India’s growing energy needs and that creates room for India to lead on climate action at a time when the US has stepped back, said Sumant Sinha, chief executive officer of ReNew, at the Bloomberg Green event during New York Climate Week.

“We have a path we are following that is our own,” Sinha said at the event.

The Nasdaq-listed ReNew Energy Global Plc is the second-largest renewable energy company in India and, over the past year, its deployment of solar and wind farms has grown 20%. That’s supporting a…