Sharm el Sheikh, Nusa Dua At the world climate conference in Egypt, India presented a strategy for its desired goal of being climate neutral by 2070. “This is an important milestone,” India’s Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav said at 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 will be available on the ministry’s website on Monday.
India, the world’s second most populous country with more than 1.3 billion people, is one of the largest sources of climate-damaging emissions along with the United States and China. The country is in dire need of additional energy – and is increasingly dependent on renewables.
But India still relies mainly on coal. India’s population is roughly the same as the entire population of the African continent.
According to the strategy, the South Asian country wants to reduce 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 contributes little to global warming,” Yadav said. The country also has a great need for development. In the ongoing negotiations for more climate protection, no situation has arisen where the energy security of developing countries is neglected to reduce emissions.
At the climate conference in Sharm el Sheikh, representatives from nearly 200 countries wanted to agree on further joint steps against global warming. The conference officially ends on Friday, but an extension seems possible.
Major rainforest countries sign environmental alliance
The three countries with the largest rainforest areas in the world have formed an alliance to protect their tropical forests. Brazil, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Indonesia signed the declaration on Monday ahead of the 20 developed and developing (G20) countries’ discussions. These three countries cover more than half of all tropical regions worldwide.
Ahead of the G20 summit, the three countries with the largest areas of rainforest 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 safe climate protection,” Teixeira said at the UN climate conference COP27 in Egypt. The G20 summit is scheduled to kick off in Indonesia on Tuesday.
Lula announced during the August campaign that she would seek state-funded cooperation to protect the Amazon rainforest. His predecessor Jair Bolsonaro has weakened environmental protection.
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