What is the News?<\/b><\/p>\n
At the UN climate conference in Glasgow, the Prime Minister raised India\u2019s existing climate targets and also announced a few new targets.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n What are the targets announced by the PM, and what is its status?<\/b><\/p>\n First<\/b> Target:<\/b> India will reach its non-fossil energy capacity to 500 GW by 2030.<\/span><\/p>\n Is this target achievable? <\/b>Non-fossil fuels include not just renewables like solar or wind but also nuclear and hydro. According to the 2020 Central Electricity Authority\u2019s report, India\u2019s non-fossil installed capacity in 2019 was 134 GW and is projected to reach 520 GW by 2030.<\/span><\/p>\n Second Target<\/b>: India will meet 50 percent of its energy requirements from renewable energy by 2030.<\/span><\/p>\n Is this target achievable? <\/b>\u00a0<\/span>By November 2020, the share of renewables, including large hydropower, in total installed electrical capacity had already crossed 36%. Therefore, taking this target to 50% is not difficult.<\/span><\/p>\n Third Target<\/b>\u2013 India will reduce the total projected carbon emissions by one billion tonnes from now on till 2030. This means that <\/span>India would bend its business-as-usual emissions trajectory to ensure at least 1 billion tonnes of emissions are saved.<\/span><\/p>\n Fourth Target: <\/b>By 2030, India will reduce the carbon intensity of its economy by less than 45 percent.<\/span><\/p>\n Is this target achievable? <\/b>According to India’s third Biennial Update Report, by 2016, the emissions’ intensity of GDP had fallen by 24% compared to 2005. (This estimate excludes agriculture sector emissions).<\/span><\/p>\n Fifth Target:<\/b> By the year 2070, India will achieve the target of Net Zero. <\/span>This means that come 2070, India will not add a single particle of carbon into the atmosphere (or rather, it will capture and store all the particles it releases).<\/span><\/p>\n Source: <\/b>This post is based on the article <\/span>\u201c<\/b>Explained: PM\u2019s climate promises, and how far India is on track to meet them<\/b>\u201d <\/b>published in <\/span>Indian Express <\/b>on <\/span>8th November 2021.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? At the UN climate conference in Glasgow, the Prime Minister raised India\u2019s existing climate targets and also announced a few new targets.\u00a0 What are the targets announced by the PM, and what is its status? First Target: India will reach its non-fossil energy capacity to 500 GW by 2030. Is this… Continue reading Explained: PM\u2019s climate promises, and how far India is on track to meet them<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700805962,"cached_date":1704726735},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}