India has revealed a national plan to combat global warming that focuses mainly on renewable energy for sustainable development, but refuse to establish specific targets for reducing emissions that could affect the economy.
National Action Plan provides the exploitation of renewable energy, such as solar and energy efficiency as a primary weapon in the fight against global warming and show that will be opened a fund for research into green technologies.
Despite the commitment for adoption to a clean technologies, carbon remains the basis of the energy sector in India, representing 60% of the total energy of the country, the government intend to add 70,000 megawatts in the next five years.
Nevertheless, India needs more energy to out their population of poverty, and emissions per habitant represent a fraction of those from developed countries, which have burned uninterrupted fossil fuel since from Industrial Revolution.
Emissions of carbon dioxide per habitant of India the main gas emissions, were 1.2 tonnes in 2004, compared with 20.6 tonnes each were recorded in the United States in the same year.
Indian economy, which grew by 8-9% annually in recent years, contributing approximately with 4% to global emissions of greenhouse gas emissions. Being a country in developing, India has not yet been required to reduce their emissions of greenhouse gas emissions.
At this point, India’s plan to combat climate change are energy efficiency, exploiting solar energy, water conservation, sustainable agriculture, protect the Himalayan ecosystem and sustainable living, for “a green country”.
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