NEW DELHI - India has pledged higher targets on climate but the new goals, which omit a specific target for renewable energy, have prompted a debate on whether the world's fourth biggest emitter of carbon dioxide is doing enough to fight global warming.
These are higher goals compared with the 2015 NDC ones that had pledged a 33-35 per cent reduction in emissions intensity by 2030, and 40 per cent electric power installed capacity from non-fossil fuel by the same year. He had announced that 50 per cent of India's energy requirement would be met by renewable energy by 2030.
"Not having one is disappointing given that India has been doing well in the renewables space," he told The Straits Times.India had an estimated 40 per cent installed capacity from non-fossil sources as at June 2022. The goal to cut emissions intensity by 45 per cent would require a"substantial decoupling" of emissions from GDP, said Dr Navroz Dubash, a professor at the Centre for Policy Research .