New Delhi: India has pledged to generate 40 per cent of all its electricity from non-fossil fuel sources by 2030 as part of its efforts to curb its earth-warming greenhouse gas emissions.
In its submission to the UN climate change agency tonight, the Indian government has also announced plans to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions intensity by 33 to 35 per cent by 2030 from the 2005 level.
India is among the last major economies to file the so-called Intended Nationally Determined Contributions that each of the world’s 192 countries were to submit by October 1. Negotiators will analyse each of the INDCs ahead of a climate change conference in Paris this year that seeks to finalise a global pact aimed at preventing global temperature rising beyond two degrees C.
India’s INDC also says the country expected at least $1,000 billion from the developed countries to finance its shift towards a low emissions economy and to help various sectors adapt to climate change.