The World Economic Forum (WEF) <\/span>in collaboration with Kearney and Observer Research Foundation <\/span>has released a report titled \u201c<\/span>Mission 2070: A Green New Deal for a Net-Zero India\u201d<\/span><\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n India is the 3rd largest Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emitter in the world, behind the United States and China. Five sectors \u2013 energy, agriculture, industry, transportation and infrastructure\/buildings \u2013 contribute to more than 96% of India\u2019s GHG emissions today.<\/span><\/p>\n As per the report, Decarbonization of India’s economy will require actions in five sectors that contribute to almost all its GHG emissions.The actions required are:<\/span><\/p>\n Energy:<\/b> T<\/span>he energy sector accounts for ~40% of India\u2019s GHG emissions. <\/span>Decarbonizing the energy sector will require a three-pronged approach: replace fossil fuels with renewables; reduce fossil CO2<\/sub> emissions from legacy infrastructure through enhanced efficiencies and remove unavoidable carbon emissions through carbon sequestration.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Mobility: <\/b>A green transformation of mobility will need a shift in modal mix from road to rail, as well as a broad-based fuel diversification approach to encourage sustainable fuels (biofuels, CNG, LNG) in the immediate term, electrification in the medium term and hydrogen-based heavy mobility in the long term.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Industry:<\/b> The decarbonization of this sector will need demand-management measures such as circular economy acceleration; continued energy- efficiency improvements;carbon capture, low- carbon fuels such as biomass and hydrogen among others.<\/span><\/p>\n Green Buildings, Infrastructure and Cities:<\/b> India\u2019s top 25 cities contribute more than 15% of its estimated GHG emissions. India\u2019s transition to greener cities will need a rethink of its approach to urban planning with a focus on transit-oriented urban development and an emphasis on low- carbon buildings and infrastructure construction.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Agriculture:<\/b> The agriculture sector is the largest contributor to nitrous oxide (N2O) and methane emissions. To reduce agriculture emissions, India will need a national campaign to empower, educate and enable farmers in adopting precision agriculture, sustainable animal husbandry and green energy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Source: <\/b>This post is based on the article<\/span> \u201c<\/b>Mission 2070: A Green New Deal for a Net Zero India<\/b>\u201d <\/b>published by<\/span> WEF on 10th November<\/b> 2021.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? The World Economic Forum (WEF) in collaboration with Kearney and Observer Research Foundation has released a report titled \u201cMission 2070: A Green New Deal for a Net-Zero India\u201d. What is the key finding of the report? India is the 3rd largest Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emitter in the world, behind the United… Continue reading Mission 2070: A Green New Deal for a Net Zero India<\/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":[9914],"class_list":["post-146285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-net-zero-emission","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700780640,"cached_date":1702457301},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146285","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=146285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is the key finding of the report?<\/b><\/h5>\n
What are the recommendations of the report?
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