India has decided to scale up its Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) under the Paris Agreement for the period 2031-2035, and has announced three major climate pledges.
The three new targets are to ensure that emissions intensity is reduced by 47%; ensuring that 60% of India’s total electricity capacity comes from non-fossil sources by 2035; And create 3.5 to 4 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent carbon sink, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnau said after the Cabinet approved new National Climate Action Plans.
These targets are more ambitious than India’s 2030 targets. The three main targets for 2030 are to reduce GDP emissions intensity by 45% by 2030 compared to the 2005 level, achieve 50% cumulative electricity capacity from non-fossil sources by 2030, and create an additional carbon store of 2.5 to 3 billion tons of CO2 equivalent through additional forest and tree cover by 2030. 2030.
As HT reported on July 16 last year, India has already achieved its previous 2030 target of increasing non-fossil energy by 50% five years ahead of schedule, prompting the government to raise the bar in the next decade.
India’s other goals for 2035 include a cleaner, greener path to economic development; Resilient infrastructure, especially climate change adaptation, disaster management and fragile ecosystems; Eco-lifestyle – a mass movement for a healthy and sustainable lifestyle; Mobilizing low-cost financing and building capacity in advanced climate technologies.
HT had reported in February that India is committed to combating climate change and has taken several measures to meet the NDC (Nationally Determined Contribution) made by India to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) under the Paris Agreement in 2015, which was updated in 2022, the union environment ministry informed the Rajya Sabha on January 29 in a written reply.
