Highlights of India's climate action plan

Highlights of India's climate action plan, known as Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs), announced by Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar here on Friday:

- To reduce the emissions intensity by 33-35 percent by 2030

- To achieve 40 percent cumulative electric power installed capacity from non-fossil fuel-based energy resources by 2030, with the help of transfer of technology and low cost international finance, including from Green Climate Fund

- To put forward and further propagate a healthy and sustainable way of living based on traditions and values of conservation and moderation

- To adopt a climate-friendly and a cleaner path than the one followed hitherto by others at corresponding level of economic development

- To create an additional carbon sink of 2.5 to 3 billion tonnes of CO2 through additional forest and tree cover by 2030.

- 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

- To mobilise domestic and new and additional funds from developed countries to implement the above mitigation and adaptation actions in view of the resource required and the resource gap.

- 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

- Reflect issues of mitigation, adaptation, finance, technology transfer and capacity building.

--Indo-Asian News service

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