Explained: As India strengthens its climate targets, a look at the progress so far, what’s new | Explained News,The Indian Express
At the Glasgow meeting last year, PM Narendra Modi promised to strengthen India’s climate commitments. He made five promises, and called it the 'Panchamrit'. Two of these were upward revision of existing targets, the ones that have now been made official.
Nine months after Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a few headline-grabbing promises at the climate change conference in Glasgow last year, the government, on Wednesday, converted two of those into official targets, which would now be part of India’s international climate commitments for 2030.
India’s NDC, or nationally determined commitments, have been updated with these two promises, both of which are enhancements of existing targets, and would be submitted to the UN climate body. The 2015 Paris Agreement requires every country to set self-determined climate targets which have to be progressively updated with more ambitious goals every few years. India’s first NDC was submitted in 2015, just before the Paris Agreement was finalised.
India’s original NDC contained three main targets for 2030:
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A 33 to 35 per cent reduction in emissions intensity (or emissions per unit of GDP) from 2005 levels
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At least 40 per cent of total electricity generation to come from non-fossil renewable sources
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