Four promises to keep: How achievable are India's 2030 climate goals

Are the four near-term targets very ambitious? Business Standard maps the country's performance so far, on these fronts

With India having set itself on a path to the long-term target of becoming a net-zero economy by 2070, Prime Minister Narendra Modi committed to the world four distinct near-term targets to be achieved by 2030: (1) improving renewable power generation capacity, (2) greening India’s energy use, (3) cutting emissions explicitly, and (4) reducing the economy’s dependence on carbon emitting fossil fuels.

How has India performed on these fronts till now? And how achievable--or steep--does the target look from this point in time? Abhishek Waghmare & Ishaan Gera explain.

#Mission2030 Target 1: Take India’s non-fossil energy capacity to 500 GW