Sharm el Sheikh, Nusa Dua At the world climate conference in Egypt, India presented its strategy for the desired goal of becoming climate neutral by 2070. “This is an important milestone,” India’s Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav told the conference on Monday. “India has shown that it follows words with deeds.” Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the goal a year ago at COP26 in Glasgow. The plan should be available on the ministry’s website by Monday.
India, the world’s second most populous country with more than 1.3 billion people, is one of the biggest sources of climate-damaging emissions along with the US and China. The country is in dire need of additional energy – and is relying increasingly on renewables.
But India still depends primarily on coal. India’s population is roughly equal to the entire population of the African continent.
Under the strategy, the South Asian country wants to cause fewer climate-damaging emissions in its power generation and transportation systems, among other things. India’s transport sector accounts for nearly ten percent of emissions, he said at an event at the India Pavilion at COP27 on Monday.
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“India has contributed very little to global warming,” said Yadav. The country also has a great need for development. In the ongoing negotiations for greater climate protection, there must be no situation that undermines developing countries’ energy security for reducing emissions.
At the climate conference in Sharm el Sheikh, representatives of nearly 200 countries wanted to agree on further joint steps against global warming. The conference officially ends on Friday, but an extension appears to be a possibility.
Major rainforest countries sign environmental alliances
The three countries with the most extensive rainforest areas in the world have formed an alliance to protect their tropical forests. Brazil, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Indonesia signed the declaration on Monday ahead of the 20 developed and developing economies (G20) talks. These three countries cover more than half of the tropical regions worldwide.
On the eve of the G20 summit, the three countries with the largest rainforest areas decided to form a new environmental alliance to prevent this image.
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Brazil wants to work to ensure that all nine countries in the Amazon basin join the project, said Izabella Teixeira, environmental adviser to Brazil’s newly elected President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. “Without protecting the Amazon, there can be no secure climate protection,” Teixeira said at the UN climate conference COP27 in Egypt. The G20 summit is scheduled to start in Indonesia on Tuesday.
Lula announced during the August campaign that he would seek industrialized state-funded cooperation to protect the Amazon rainforest. His predecessor Jair Bolsonaro has weakened environmental protections.
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