India’s Commitment to Climate Change

One of the most important commitments heard in the first week of the Glasgow Climate Change Summit came from India, which is consuming energy rapidly as hundreds of millions of people emerge from poverty and the demographic boom drives it to οvercome in population the population of China.

Historically, India’s pollutants are minimal (1/20 per capita from US pollutants) while today the country emits as much pollution as the EU, which has a third of its population. In the future, the battle of the whole planet will largely depend on the evolution of India’s pollutants.

At the COP26 summit, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi pledged that by 2030, 50% of the country’s electricity will come from renewable sources. Also that the country will achieve a zero carbon balance in 2070, slower than other countries, but not so slow given the huge growth needs and population explosion of India. Perhaps the most difficult of all the commitments is the one that has not been made and concerns the richest part of the world’s population.

According to an analysis by Oxfam, in order to stay within the target of 1.5 degrees Celsius, rich countries must emit 1/9 of the pollutants they emit today, while those in the top 1% of wealth must reduce their carbonate fingerprint at 1/30.

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