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Are current efforts & pledges sufficient?
The good news is that there are signs that policies are changing. Most developed countries have declared or suggested possible mid-term emission reduction targets. Japan’s new government has just increased the ambition of their target. Important draft legislation is being prepared in many countries to back-up these targets.
Are current efforts & pledges sufficient?
The good news is that there are signs that policies are changing. Most developed countries have declared or suggested possible mid-term emission reduction targets. Japan’s new government has just increased the ambition of their target. Important draft legislation is being prepared in many countries to back-up these targets.
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India was a day late in its submission of its climate change plan to the UN, and was the last of 140 countries to do so.
The delay was partly deliberate. The government of Narendra Modi waited until the anniversary of the birth of the Mahatma Gandhi , the revered independence leader and campaigner for a low-tech local model of economic development based on village communities, to give their announcement added resonance.
Gandhi is invoked repeatedly in the Indian submission, with one of his quotes warning: “[The] Earth has enough resources to meet people’s needs, but will never have enough to satisfy people’s greed.”
But the delay was also due to the delicacy of the issue. Modi and his Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) owe their landslide victory in last year’s elections to the conviction among millions of Indians that they can bring economic growth and, above all, opportunity. For most Indians, this remains the priority. The environment, many in the south Asian emerging power believe, can wait.
“When we are rich we will have the money to clean things up. But we are a poor country,” said Sanjeev Kumar, a night watchman, in Delhi.
A schoolgirl crosses a road shrouded in haze in New Delhi, India. Photograph: Kuni Takahashi/Bloomberg/Getty Images
As its submission made clear, “it is estimated that more than half of India of 2030 is yet to be built”. India’s population of 1.3 billion is projected to grow to 1.5 billion by 2030. Its current infrastructure, including power supply, is grossly inadequate even for those alive now, let alone future demographic and economic growth. At least one-third of children are malnourished; sanitation is patchy in rural areas; literacy levels are improved but remain comparatively low.
The BJP government has made a point of overruling previous decisions blocking developments on environmental grounds since coming to power to allow major infrastructure projects to go ahead.
India’s main argument in negotiations so far, likely to be repeated many times in the weeks to come, is twofold. Ministers and negotiators point out that though the world’s third biggest greenhouse gas emitter, India’s per capita emissions level is a fraction of that of developed countries, especially the US.
They will also emphasise the idea of “climate justice”, and stress the responsibility of the west for carbon pollution since the Industrial Revolution.
Such arguments chime with local sentiment within India, where there is a long tradition of independent thinking and resistance to “international” conclaves which are seen to be dominated by the US particularly, and the developed word more generally.
The pledge to have 40% of its electricity capacity from renewable and other low-carbon sources and cut the “emissions intensity” of its economy – a ratio of carbon emissions per unit of GDP – by up to 35% by 2030 is ambitious.
India is building a huge quantity of new coal-fired power stations, even while it is investing in solar and wind energy too.
Pujarini Sen, climate and energy campaigner for Greenpeace India, said: “The scale of expansion of another 170-200 GW power from coal is baffling. This will set back India’s development prospects, by worsening problems of air quality and water scarcity, as well as contributing to the destruction of forests from mining, and the displacement of communities.
A coal yard and power plant in Krishnapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. Photograph: Prashanth Vishwanathan/Bloomberg/Getty Images
“Financial analysts have predicted that electricity from renewable energy, especially solar, will be cheaper than coal within a few years so where is the economic rationale for investing in what might well be stranded assets?”
Greenpeace did however welcome the Indian government’s climate targets and supported its call for finance and technology assistance from developed countries.
Other experts backed the call for technological help from wealthier nations.
“India, through its announced INDC, demonstrates i
The delay was partly deliberate. The government of Narendra Modi waited until the anniversary of the birth of the Mahatma Gandhi , the revered independence leader and campaigner for a low-tech local model of economic development based on village communities, to give their announcement added resonance.
Gandhi is invoked repeatedly in the Indian submission, with one of his quotes warning: “[The] Earth has enough resources to meet people’s needs, but will never have enough to satisfy people’s greed.”
But the delay was also due to the delicacy of the issue. Modi and his Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) owe their landslide victory in last year’s elections to the conviction among millions of Indians that they can bring economic growth and, above all, opportunity. For most Indians, this remains the priority. The environment, many in the south Asian emerging power believe, can wait.
“When we are rich we will have the money to clean things up. But we are a poor country,” said Sanjeev Kumar, a night watchman, in Delhi.
A schoolgirl crosses a road shrouded in haze in New Delhi, India. Photograph: Kuni Takahashi/Bloomberg/Getty Images
As its submission made clear, “it is estimated that more than half of India of 2030 is yet to be built”. India’s population of 1.3 billion is projected to grow to 1.5 billion by 2030. Its current infrastructure, including power supply, is grossly inadequate even for those alive now, let alone future demographic and economic growth. At least one-third of children are malnourished; sanitation is patchy in rural areas; literacy levels are improved but remain comparatively low.
The BJP government has made a point of overruling previous decisions blocking developments on environmental grounds since coming to power to allow major infrastructure projects to go ahead.
India’s main argument in negotiations so far, likely to be repeated many times in the weeks to come, is twofold. Ministers and negotiators point out that though the world’s third biggest greenhouse gas emitter, India’s per capita emissions level is a fraction of that of developed countries, especially the US.
They will also emphasise the idea of “climate justice”, and stress the responsibility of the west for carbon pollution since the Industrial Revolution.
Such arguments chime with local sentiment within India, where there is a long tradition of independent thinking and resistance to “international” conclaves which are seen to be dominated by the US particularly, and the developed word more generally.
The pledge to have 40% of its electricity capacity from renewable and other low-carbon sources and cut the “emissions intensity” of its economy – a ratio of carbon emissions per unit of GDP – by up to 35% by 2030 is ambitious.
India is building a huge quantity of new coal-fired power stations, even while it is investing in solar and wind energy too.
Pujarini Sen, climate and energy campaigner for Greenpeace India, said: “The scale of expansion of another 170-200 GW power from coal is baffling. This will set back India’s development prospects, by worsening problems of air quality and water scarcity, as well as contributing to the destruction of forests from mining, and the displacement of communities.
A coal yard and power plant in Krishnapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. Photograph: Prashanth Vishwanathan/Bloomberg/Getty Images
“Financial analysts have predicted that electricity from renewable energy, especially solar, will be cheaper than coal within a few years so where is the economic rationale for investing in what might well be stranded assets?”
Greenpeace did however welcome the Indian government’s climate targets and supported its call for finance and technology assistance from developed countries.
Other experts backed the call for technological help from wealthier nations.
“India, through its announced INDC, demonstrates i
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