India's Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC): Working Towards Climate Justice.
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This India’s Intended Nationally Determined Contribution is a multi-sectoral policy document for the period of 2015-2030. The INDC submitted by India highlights eight key goals – sustainable lifestyles, cleaner economic development, reducing emission intensity of GDP, increasing the share of non-fossil fuel based electricity, enhancing carbon sink, adaptation and mobilising finance, technology transfer and capacity building.
As a country that’s highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, the INDC seeks to address climate change issues in a balanced way. According to the INDC, India’s contribution takes into account its commitment to conservation of nature as well as the imperatives of meeting the competing demand of resources for addressing the challenges of poverty eradication, food security and nutrition, universal access to education and health, gender equality and women empowerment, water and sanitation, energy, employment, sustainable urbanisation and new human settlements and the means of implementation for enhanced action for achieving the sustainable development goals for its 1.2 billion people. Meanwhile, the INDC indicates that as the countries put together the new global compact for enhanced actions, it is critical to ensure that it is comprehensive, balanced, equitable, and pragmatic, and the genuine requirements of developing countries like India for an equitable carbon and development space to achieve sustainable development and eradication of poverty needs to be safeguarded.
Through the submission of the INDC, India intends to reduce the emissions intensity of its GDP by 33 to 35 % by 2030 from 2005 level. It also intends to increase the share of non-fossil fuels-based electricity to 40 per cent by 2030. The INDC recognizes the importance of aggressively restoring forest cover, in a manner consistent with supporting livelihood. One of the targets is to create an additional carbon sink of 2.5 to 3 billion tonnes of CO2 through additional forests by 2030.
The INDC also highlights of immediate importance of adaptation: the adverse impacts of climate change on the developmental prospects of the country are amplified enormously by the existence of widespread poverty and dependence of a large proportion of the population on climate sensitive sectors for livelihood. The INDC further proposes to better adapt to climate change by enhancing investments in development programmes in sectors vulnerable to climate change, particularly agriculture, water resources, Himalayan region, coastal regions, health and disaster management.
For the full implementation of actions, the INDC proposes: to mobilize domestic and new & additional funds from developed countries to implement the above mitigation and adaptation actions in view of the resource required and the resource gap; and to build capacities, create domestic framework and international architecture for quick diffusion of cutting edge climate technology in India and for joint collaborative R&D for such future technologies.
As a country that’s highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, the INDC seeks to address climate change issues in a balanced way. According to the INDC, India’s contribution takes into account its commitment to conservation of nature as well as the imperatives of meeting the competing demand of resources for addressing the challenges of poverty eradication, food security and nutrition, universal access to education and health, gender equality and women empowerment, water and sanitation, energy, employment, sustainable urbanisation and new human settlements and the means of implementation for enhanced action for achieving the sustainable development goals for its 1.2 billion people. Meanwhile, the INDC indicates that as the countries put together the new global compact for enhanced actions, it is critical to ensure that it is comprehensive, balanced, equitable, and pragmatic, and the genuine requirements of developing countries like India for an equitable carbon and development space to achieve sustainable development and eradication of poverty needs to be safeguarded.
Through the submission of the INDC, India intends to reduce the emissions intensity of its GDP by 33 to 35 % by 2030 from 2005 level. It also intends to increase the share of non-fossil fuels-based electricity to 40 per cent by 2030. The INDC recognizes the importance of aggressively restoring forest cover, in a manner consistent with supporting livelihood. One of the targets is to create an additional carbon sink of 2.5 to 3 billion tonnes of CO2 through additional forests by 2030.
The INDC also highlights of immediate importance of adaptation: the adverse impacts of climate change on the developmental prospects of the country are amplified enormously by the existence of widespread poverty and dependence of a large proportion of the population on climate sensitive sectors for livelihood. The INDC further proposes to better adapt to climate change by enhancing investments in development programmes in sectors vulnerable to climate change, particularly agriculture, water resources, Himalayan region, coastal regions, health and disaster management.
For the full implementation of actions, the INDC proposes: to mobilize domestic and new & additional funds from developed countries to implement the above mitigation and adaptation actions in view of the resource required and the resource gap; and to build capacities, create domestic framework and international architecture for quick diffusion of cutting edge climate technology in India and for joint collaborative R&D for such future technologies.
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