{"id":8391,"date":"2019-07-24T14:33:16","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T09:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=8391"},"modified":"2019-07-24T14:33:16","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T09:03:16","slug":"un-climate-envoy-meets-javadekar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/un-climate-envoy-meets-javadekar\/","title":{"rendered":"UN climate envoy meets Javadekar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Special\nEnvoy of the UN Secretary-General for the 2019 Climate Action Summit has met\nIndia\u2019s Union Environment Minister in New Delhi.<\/li><li>2019\nClimate Action Summit is scheduled to be held in New York in September 2019.\nThe summit has asked national governments to come up with concrete plans to\nenhance their nationally determined contributions by 2020 in in line with\nreducing greenhouse gas emissions by 45% in next 10 years, and to net zero\nemissions by 2050.<\/li><li>The\nSummit seeks to develop ambitious solutions in six areas: a) a global\ntransition to renewable energy; b) sustainable and resilient infrastructures\nand cities; c) sustainable agriculture, d) management of forests and oceans; e)\nresilience and adaptation to climate impacts; and f) alignment of public and\nprivate finance with a net zero economy.<\/li><li>The\nUN has also announced a \u2018Clean Air Initiative\u2019. It calls on governments to\nachieve air quality that is safe for citizens and to align climate change and\nair pollution policies by 2030.<\/li><li>As\na commitment to the Paris Agreement (2015), nations have to put forward\nnational climate actions they intend to take to reduce national emissions and\nadapt to the impacts of climate change. These are called Intended Nationally\nDetermined Contributions (INDCs).<\/li><li>India\u2019s\nINDCs include a) reduce the emissions intensity of its GDP by 33% to 35% by\n2030 from 2005 level, b)increase total cumulative electricity generation from\nfossil free energy sources to 40% by 2030, c) create additional carbon sink of\n2.5 to 3 billion tons through additional forest and tree cover.<\/li><li>The\nParis agreement (2015) is an international agreement with the framework of\nUnited Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. It seeks to combat\nclimate change and accelerate the actions and investments needed for a\nsustainable low carbon future.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for the 2019 Climate Action Summit has met India\u2019s Union Environment Minister in New Delhi. 2019 Climate Action Summit is scheduled to be held in New York in September 2019. The summit has asked national governments to come up with concrete plans to enhance their nationally determined contributions by&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/un-climate-envoy-meets-javadekar\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UN climate envoy meets Javadekar<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182],"tags":[4571],"class_list":["post-8391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-climate-action-summit-2019","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704956056},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8391","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}