India’s Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) and COP-21 Paris climate conference.

Civil Services Main Examination

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COP 21 ParisQuestion: “India’s Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) is balanced and comprehensive for the coming COP-21 Paris climate conference.” Comment.

Answer: INDC include reduction in the emissions intensity of its GDP by 33 to 35 per cent by 2030 from 2005 level and to create an additional carbon sink of 2.5 to 3 billion tonnes of CO2 equivalent through additional forest and tree cover by 2030.

INDC outlines the post-2020 climate actions they intend to take under a new international agreement. Despite facing enormous development challenges like poverty eradication, ensuring housing, electricity and food security for all, India declared a voluntary goal of reducing the emissions intensity of its GDP by 20–25%, over 2005 levels by 2020, despite having no binding mitigation obligations as per the Convention.

Urban transport policy will encourage moving people rather than vehicles with a major focus on Mass Rapid Transit Systems. Delhi Metro, which has become India’s first MRTS project to earn carbon credits, has the potential to reduce about 0.57 million tonnes of CO2 e annually. The switch from Bharat Stage IV (BS IV) to Bharat Stage V (BS V) and Bharat Stage VI (BS VI) to improve fuel standards across the country is also planned for the near future.

India’s share of non-fossil fuel in the total installed capacity is projected to change from 30% in 2015 to about 40 % by 2030. To accelerate development and deployment of renewable energy in the country, the Government is taking a number of initiatives like up-scaling of targets for renewable energy capacity addition from 30GW by 2016-17 to 175 GW by 2021-22.

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