India to reduce carbon intensity by 24% by 2020
Environment minister, Jairam Ramesh, expected to formally announce the targets in parliament tomorrow
India could reduce its carbon intensity by 24% by 2020 compared with 2005 levels, government sources revealed today.
The leaked figures, which emerged ahead of the Copenhagen climate change summit next Monday, follow Beijing's announcement last week that China would move to cut carbon intensity - the amount of carbon dioxide emitted per unit of economic growth - by more than 40% by 2020.
The EU has already pledged a 20% cut in carbon emissions by 2020 - set to rise to 30% if other developed countries match the European target - while the US last month proposed cuts of 17%.
Sources told the Indian media that the reduction in carbon intensity could go up to 37% by 2030, compared to 2005. India's environment minister, Jairam Ramesh, is expected to make a statement in parliament tomorrow to announce the targets, Reuters reported.
To reduce emissions, India's national action plan on climate change sees increasing solar power generation, improving energy efficiency and enhancing carbon sinks as a route to "greener growth". In August, India laid out an ambitious plan to generate 20GW of solar power by 2020, which could equate to 75% of the world's solar energy.
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This is good stuff! Also, this "In August, India laid out an ambitious plan to generate 20GW of solar power by 2020, which could equate to 75% of the world's solar energy." should be a nobrainer. Tropics are the best suited for Solar power.
We need the right investment, right people and right policies and we should be on our way.
The scaling effort has just begun. It is estimated that solar will reach grid parity around 2015 by which time we will have significant progress on battery technology as well.
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