India ratified pledges made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Glasgow in November 2021 to accelerate the country’s reliance on renewable energy to power the economy and be effectively free from use of fossil fuels by 2070. However, the approved pledges were fewer than those Mr. Modi committed to.
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The Union Cabinet approved an update to India’s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC).
Modi had laid out five commitments, or Panchamrit, as the government references it, namely:
India will increase its non-fossil energy capacity to 500 GW (gigawatt) by 2030;
will meet 50% of its energy requirements from “renewable energy” by 2030;
will reduce the total projected carbon emissions by one billion tonnes from now till 2030;
will reduce the carbon intensity of its economy by more than 45%; and
will achieve the target of “net zero” by the year 2070, when there will be no net carbon dioxide emitted from energy sources.
A press statement, following the Cabinet approval, only mentions two of these promises, namely that
India is committed to reduce emissions intensity of its GDP by 45% by 2030, from the 2005 level and
achieving 50% cumulative electric power installed capacity from non-fossil fuel-based energy resources by 2030.
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