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India to achieve climate goals before schedule:

Environment Minister Harsh Vardhan
By Urmi Goswami, ET Bureau Last Updated: Dec 03, 2018, 11:57 PM IST
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In terms of our commitment we are already on track. This has been of cially
acknowledged by the United Nations Environment, all related stakeholders and
agencies, said Harsh Vardhan.

Katowice, Poland: India is set to

surpass its commitment to increase the
share of renewables in its energy
generation basket and reduce the
amount of carbo dioxide pollution
produced for every dollar of GDP by 33
to 35% ahead of 2030.

India has made it clear that it is aware of that the

“In terms of our commitment we are
world needs to do more and neither did it shy
away from the idea of stepping up its own efforts.
already on track. This has been
o icially acknowledged by the United Nations Environment, all related
stakeholders and agencies. We are already achieving our goals much ahead of
the deadline,” said Environment Minister Harsh Vardhan.

India’s national climate action plans, known in UN parlance as nationally

determined contributions (NDCs), under the Paris Agreement set three major
goals—increase the share of non-fossil fuels to 40% of the total electricity
generation capacity, to reduce the emission intensity of the economy by 33 to
35% by 2030 from 2005 level, and to create additional carbon sink of 2.5 -3
billion tonnes of CO2 equivalent through additional forest and tree cover.

Independent assessments show that India’s commitments are keeping with

the Paris Agreement goal of keeping temperature increase to well below 2
degrees Celsius. More recent independent assessments nd that India is likely
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capacity and emissions intensity goals by 2020, that is a decade before the
deadline of 2030 it set in its NDC.

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March 2019, India’s thermal power capacity will be 226GW or 63% of India’s Rahul Gandhi Amit Shah Mamata Banerjee

total of 360GW. At that pace, by the end of calendar 2019 the share of non-
fossil fuel capacity is likely to exceed 40% .

The National Electricity Policy nalised in 2018 forecasts a decline in fossil

fuel capacity from 218GW or 67% of 2017 installed capacity to 264GW or just
43% of total installed capacity by 2027.

The emissions intensity of GDP, India has been able to bring it down by 21%
below 2005 levels by 2014. At this average annual rate of 2%, India will meet
its Paris goal nearly a decade ahead of 2030.

However, as regards the forestry goal, India’s achievements are not as robust.
“Our commitment is to create additional carbon sink of 2.5 -3 billion tonnes of
CO2 equivalent, given our present pace it may be a little di icult to achieve
this target,” said Mishra. But the situation is being addressed. “We are
conscious of this, so a new strategy has been formulated, and put in place by
which between now and 2030 this pace is going to almost be doubled. This
should help meet the goal.”

A more detailed analysis of India’s progress on its cliamte goals will be

submitted to the UN climate secretariat in its Biennial Assessment Report. As

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per the agreement reached in Cancun in 2020, developing countries are

required to submit an assessment report every two years on the progress made
in reducing emissions. India was slated to release its mandated biennial
assessment report on Monday at the climate meet in Katowice. However, this
was not Possible as the report is yet to be approved by Cabinet. “The report is
ready, and the technical assessment is over, and I have approved it. It now
requires approval by the Cabinet, after which it will be submitted within the
deadline of December 31,” said environment secretary CK Mishra.

There has been a rising demand that countries increase their e orts to tackle
climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. A demand that has
been gaining strength in light of the mounting evidence and robust
assessments that the current nationally determined climate action would not
be su icient to limit temperature increase to well below 2 degrees Celsius let
alone the aspirational 1.5 degrees Celsius agreed to in Paris.

There is concern in some sectors that overachieving on the NDC goals may
lead to increased pressures on India to revise its 2030 goals under the Paris
Agreement. “If there is a need and if the whole world is acting on it, I can
assure you India will be leading in this also, “ the minister said. He stressed
that for India tackling climate change “is not merely a technical issue, for us it
is a moral issue, for us it is an issue where we want to protect the DNA that
has been provided by our ancestors”.

India has made it clear that it is aware of that the world needs to do more and
neither did it shy away from the idea of stepping up its own e orts. “We realise
that everyone in the world needs to do much more than what they are
currently committed to doing, because that is not enough. We hope that all the
developed countries also ful ll their commitments. This includes their
obligations to provide money and technology to the developing countries, so
that countries like us are able to do much more than we are currently doing,”
said Mishra.

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The Election Commission will hold a meeting on Friday to discuss the upcoming bypolls
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