Blitz Bureau
NEW DELHI: India has achieved 50 per cent of its electricity capacity from non-fossil fuels, as well as boosted its carbon sink, the Government has said. In a written reply in the Lok Sabha on December 8, Union Minister of State for Environment, Forest, and Climate Change (MoEFCC) Kirti Vardhan Singh stated the country’s achievement in reducing carbon emissions.
“India has achieved its Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) goal of the share of non-fossil fuel-based power generation capacity of more than 50 per cent five years ahead of the deadline (2030),” Singh said.
“India has created an additional carbon sink of 2.29 billion tonnes CO2 equivalent from forest and tree cover,” he added.
Citing the Fourth Biennial Update Report (BUR-4) submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 2024, Singh noted that the net national greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of India in 2020 were 2,437 million tonnes CO2 equivalent — 7.93 per cent lower than the emissions in the year 2019.
The decrease is mainly attributed to sectors of energy, where emissions decreased by 5.7 per cent, and Industrial Process and Product use, where emissions decreased by 9.5 per cent from 2019 to 2020.
