Ministers of India and 3 more countries grouped together to fight against pandemic and climate changes
Glasgow: Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Bhupender Yadav had chaired a meeting at COP26 in Glasgow, UK in which ministers of Brazil, South Africa, India and China represented the BASIC Group.
As per all the ministers on Wednesday, everyone pledged their full support to the United Kingdom COP26 Presidency for a successful conference. Results in an ambitious outcome. This meeting also talked about the completion Paris Agreement Work Programme to facilitate the full implementation of the Paris Agreement and Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs).
The ministers talked about the tremendous developmental challenges and pressures of poverty eradication and also the climatic changes.
BASIC will tackle all the problems regarding climatic changes.
On the first day of the summit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, where he talked regarding 'panchamrit' or five nectar elements to deal with the challenge of climate change. PM Modi also announced that the nation will shift to a carbon-neutral by 2070.
India announced five new and updated targets including increasing non-fossil fuel installed electricity capacity to 500 Gigawatts by 2030, achieving 50 per cent of cumulative electric power installed capacity from renewable energy by 2030, reducing total projected carbon emissions by 1 billion tons between now and 2030, reducing the emissions intensity of GDP by 45 per cent by 2030 and achieving net-zero emissions by 2070.
As per the conference, India is the last of the world's major carbon polluters to declare a net-zero target. Also, the scientists and the experts say we must halve global emissions by 2030 and reach net-zero by 2050, to prevent the worst impacts of climate change.
PM Modi also urged for a global push to adopt sustainable lifestyles.
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