On track to meet commitments: India assures in biennial update
Hindustan Times Chandigarh|January 02, 2025
India, home to nearly one-sixth of humanity, is on track to meet its climate commitments despite being one of the fastest-growing economies in the world, the country has told the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in its fourth biennial update.
Jayashree Nandi

NEW DELHI:

The country has progressively decoupled its economic growth from greenhouse gas emissions, reducing the emission intensity of gross domestic product (GDP) by 36% between 2005 and 2020, it said in the report submitted to UNFCCC on Tuesday.

According to the document, as of October 2024, the share of non-fossil sources in the country's installed electricity generation capacity was 46.52%; and the forest and tree cover stood at 25.17% of the total geographical area of the country.

Separately, between 2005 and 2021, an additional carbon sink of 2.29 billion tonnes of CO2 equivalent was created, the document communicated.

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