{"id":87029,"date":"2019-11-12T17:18:48","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T11:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=11519"},"modified":"2019-11-12T17:18:48","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T11:48:48","slug":"india-worst-affected-by-climate-change-among-g20-says-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-worst-affected-by-climate-change-among-g20-says-report\/","title":{"rendered":"India worst affected by climate change among G20 says report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> A study titled\n\u2018Brown to Green\u2019 by Climate Transparency (CT) has said that India is worst\naffected by climate change among G20 countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key Takeaways from\nthe study<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>India, Russia, France, Italy and Germany are the\ntop 5 for average climate related annual deaths at 3,661.<\/li><li>India, China, EU, Indonesia, Russia, Saudi\nArabia and Turkey will likely meet or surpass their NDCs targets (except for\ncurbing emissions from land use change and forestry sector).<\/li><li>However, none of the G20 countries\u2019 NDCs were\naligned to limit the global temperature rise to 1.5 degree C. <\/li><li>82% of the G20\u2019s energy mix continued to be\nfossil fuels, which had to come down to at least 67% by 2030 and to 33% by 2050\nto be compatible with the \u20181.5 degree C\u2019 target.<\/li><li>India had the most ambitious NDC and it could\nalign it with the \u20181.5 degree C target\u2019 if it continued to abandon planned\ncoal-fired power plants in favour of cheaper renewable energy technology.<\/li><li>India is currently investing the most in renewable\nenergy while Brazil and Germany were the only G20 countries with long term\nrenewable energy strategies.<\/li><li>Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan,\nMexico, Russia, South Africa, Turkey and the US needed a coal phase-out plan.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> Climate\nTransparency (CT) is a global consortium that puts together climate information\non G20 countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional\nInformation:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Paris Climate Change Agreement<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Paris Agreement was adopted at the\n UNFCC COP21 held in Paris in 2015. 195 UNFCCC members have signed the\n agreement, and 187 have become party to it<\/li><li><strong>Aim:<\/strong> It aims to strengthen the global\n response to the threat of climate change and specifies long-term goals\n regarding global average temperatures, adaptation to climate change and\n finance flows<\/li><li><strong><em>Goals:<\/em>\n <\/strong><ul><li><em>Temperature: <\/em>hold warming below 2\u00b0C above\n pre-industrial levels with effective efforts to limit warming to 1.5\u00b0C<\/li><li><em>Adaptation: <\/em>Increasing the ability to adapt to the\n adverse impacts of climate change and foster climate resilience and low\n greenhouse gas emissions development<\/li><li><em>Low Emission Finance flows: <\/em>Making finance flows consistent with a\n pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate-resilient\n development <\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>Approach<\/strong>: Intended Nationally Determined\n Targets: The Paris Agreement gives flexibility to both developed and\n developing countries to determine their own targets. The INDCs set out\n each country\u2019s plan for addressing climate change, including a target for\n reducing GHG emissions, and how the countries intend to achieve that\n target.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About G20:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>G20\n is an international forum of the governments and central bank governors\n from 20 major economies formed in 1999.<\/li><li>The\n group accounts for 85% of world GDP and two-thirds of the population.<\/li><li>They\n have no permanent staff of its own and its chairmanship rotates annually\n between nations divided into regional groupings.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"393\" width=\"750\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/factly.forumias.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/g20-1024x536.jpg?resize=750%2C393\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11520\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: A study titled \u2018Brown to Green\u2019 by Climate Transparency (CT) has said that India is worst affected by climate change among G20 countries. Facts: Key Takeaways from the study India, Russia, France, Italy and Germany are the top 5 for average climate related annual deaths at 3,661. India, China, EU, Indonesia, Russia, Saudi Arabia&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-worst-affected-by-climate-change-among-g20-says-report\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India worst affected by climate change among G20 says report<\/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":[408,3529],"class_list":["post-87029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-climate-change","tag-g20","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700775573,"cached_date":1704836472},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87029","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=87029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}