But while India is indeed implementing some actions to achieve its goals (for instance, India has one of the most rapidly developing renewable energy sectors in the world) and is faring better than many other nations, it has much distance to cover to fulfil all its promises. The Climate Action Tracker, which tracks the climate actions of around 40 countries and their impacts, rates India’s overall climate action as “highly insufficient” (as per its last update, dated November 15, 2022).
India and its climate targets https://thewire.in/environment/modi-g20-india-paris-agreement-fact-check
Under the Paris Agreement of 2015, India submitted its first set of Nationally Determined Contributions. NDCs are a set of long-term goals to cut carbon emissions and adapt to climate impacts. Every country signatory to the Paris Agreement has to submit these NDCs, and update them every five years.
India’s first NDCs included decreasing emissions intensity of India’s GDP by 33-35% compared to 2005 levels by 2030; increase total cumulative electricity generation from clean energy sources to 40% by the same year (achieving 175 gigawatts of clean power by 2022 was a target to forward this); and create an additional carbon sink of 2.5 to 3 billion tons through increasing forest and tree cover.
Though India is faring better at developing clean energy projects, it missed its 2022 renewable energy target of 175 GW.
24/06/2023