India has decided to upgrade its nationally determined contribution (NDC) under the Paris Agreement for 2031-2035, announcing three key climate pledges.
The three new goals include ensuring a 47% reduction in emissions intensity, 60% of India's total electricity capacity coming from non-fossil sources by 2035, and creating a 3.5 to 4 billion tonnes of CO2-equivalent carbon sink.
These targets are more ambitious than India's goals for the 2030 period, which included reducing emissions intensity of its Gross Domestic Product by 45% by 2030, achieving 50% cumulative electricity installed capacity from non-fossil sources by 2030, and creating an additional carbon sink of 2.5 to 3 billion tonnes of CO2 equivalent through additional forest and tree cover by 2030.
India has already achieved its previous 2030 target of 50% non-fossil fuel capacity five years ahead of schedule, prompting the government to raise the bar for the next decade.
Other goals for 2035 include a climate-friendly and cleaner path of economic development, resilient infrastructure, especially adaptation to climate change, disaster management and fragile ecosystems, and mobilising low-cost finance and capacity building in cutting-edge climate technologies.
