{"id":272286,"date":"2023-12-04T20:12:30","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T14:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=272286"},"modified":"2023-12-04T20:12:30","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T14:42:30","slug":"global-renewables-and-energy-efficiency-pledge-and-declaration-on-climate-and-health-india-has-not-signed-both","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/global-renewables-and-energy-efficiency-pledge-and-declaration-on-climate-and-health-india-has-not-signed-both\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Renewables and Energy Efficiency Pledge and Declaration on Climate and Health: India has not signed both"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201cGlobal Renewables and Energy Efficiency Pledge and <\/b><b>Declaration on Climate and Health: <\/b><b>India has not signed both\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> \u201cThe Hindu\u201d on 3rd December 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2>Why in the News?<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During the ongoing COP28 climate summit in Dubai, India has not signed the Global Renewables and Energy Efficiency Pledge nor the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Declaration on Climate and Health.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, both these pledges are still in the draft stage and are far from having legal sanctity.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>What is the Global Renewables and Energy Efficiency Pledge?<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1) The Global Renewables and Energy Efficiency Pledge has committed to <strong>tripling worldwide installed renewable energy generation capacity by 2030<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2) <\/span><b>Signed by:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong> 118 countries<\/strong>. India has not signed the pledge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">3) <\/span><b>Reason for India not signing the pledge<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The pledge states that renewables deployment must be accompanied by phase down of unabated coal power.<br \/>\n&#8211; This<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0is contrary to India\u2019s longstanding position that it needs to rely on coal to rapidly improve living standards for its people.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; India also claims that it has the right to use coal because its historical carbon emissions per person have been negligible.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>What is the Declaration on Climate and Health?<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1) The declaration <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> encourages governments to <strong>protect communities and prepare healthcare systems to<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong> handle health issues caused by climate-related impacts<\/strong> like extreme heat, air pollution, and infectious diseases.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2) <\/span><b>Signed by<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: The declaration has been signed by <strong>123 countries<\/strong>. India is not the one among these countries.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">3) <\/span><b>Reason for India not signing the declaration:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> India has not signed the declaration as the draft talks about going beyond health sector and ensuring de-carbonisation to reduce emissions. This links certain aspects of our healthcare system such as cold storage for vaccines to carbon emissions, which India opposes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>UPSC Syllabus: Environment<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cGlobal Renewables and Energy Efficiency Pledge and Declaration on Climate and Health: India has not signed both\u201d published in \u201cThe Hindu\u201d on 3rd December 2023 Why in the News? During the ongoing COP28 climate summit in Dubai, India has not signed the Global Renewables and Energy Efficiency&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/global-renewables-and-energy-efficiency-pledge-and-declaration-on-climate-and-health-india-has-not-signed-both\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Global Renewables and Energy Efficiency Pledge and Declaration on Climate and Health: India has not signed both<\/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":[1566,4182],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-272286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":8,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1701726878},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272286","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=272286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}