Singh slams developed world for lack of emissions plan

“We are the only major economy and G20 country whose actions in the energy transition are in line with a sub-2 degree rise in global temperatures. We are the only G20 country whose achievements far outweigh the nationally determined contribution (NDC) that we made in Paris. We promised. We said 40% of our installed capacity would come from non-fossil fuels. We are already at 38.5%. If you add the capacity under construction, we are already over 50%. We are targeting Eight years ago we will reach 40% by 2022. We will be 66% by 2030. We are far ahead of what we promised,” Singh said at the Mint Energyscape Conclave.

Singh said India has promised a 33-35% reduction in emissions by 2030. “We have already done 28%, and we will exceed the target,” he said.

Singh said many countries have come up with targets for themselves that they will be net-zero by 2050 or 2060, which continue to emit at the rate they are doing. “They want to be carbon net-zero by 2050 to limit the rise in global temperature to below 2 degrees, but the available carbon space is occupied by 2045. That’s what I told Ambassador Kerry and (COP 26 President) Alok Sharma Said,” he said.

John Kerry visited India earlier this week, his second since being named Special Envoy for Climate earlier this year, at the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties to be held in Glasgow between 31 October, Or as part of US efforts to prepare for COP 26. and 12 November. India is seen as the largest emitter of greenhouse gases after China and the US, although the per capita emissions are much lower than the other two countries.

Kerry advocated for India to announce a pledge to reduce emissions to “net-zero” by 2050.

“Now that COP26 is near, those developed countries realize that they will be in focus, and therefore, they want to divert the world’s attention from their non-action,” Singh said.

“The fact that they haven’t taken any steps to reduce their emissions, they want to divert attention from that. So they’re making big announcements like net-zero by 2050, which doesn’t make any sense. GandhiYes This would have been called a post-dated check on the crashed bank. They didn’t tell us what they would do in this decade until 2030.”

The minister said that India’s per capita emissions are one third of the global average.

“If you talk about the developed countries, their per capita emissions are three to eight times the global average. This way it has remained true since Kyoto. Lifestyle to reduce per capita emissions in developed countries There is a reluctance to change.”