The Union Cabinet approved India’s updated Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC).50 In 2015, under the Paris Agreement, several countries including India had submitted their Intended NDC to address climate change. This was aimed at limiting global temperature rise preferably to 1.5℃ above preindustrial level. At the 2021 Glasgow Conference (COP 26), India announced certain revised targets to be achieved by 2030. The changes in India’s NDCs are:
▪ Emission intensity of GDP: The NDC submitted in 2015 provided for reducing emission intensity of GDP by 33% to 35% by 2030 compared to 2005 levels. The revised target seeks to reduce the intensity by 45% by 2030 compared to 2005 levels.
▪ Power from non-fossil sources: The 2015 target was to increase cumulative electric power installed capacity from non-fossil sources to 40% by 2030.
As of July, 2022 India’s electric power installed capacity from non-fossil sources is 42%. 51 The updated NDC increases the target to 50%. Other targets to be achieved by 2030 announced by India at COP 26 are: (i) increasing non-fossil energy capacity to 500-gigawatt, and (ii) reducing the carbon intensity of the economy by less than 45%.52 Further, India committed to achieve net zero emissions by 2070.
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