Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) Under the Paris Agreement
NDCs are central to the Paris Agreement's bottom-up architecture, where each country sets its own climate targets and progressively ratchets them up.
- The Paris Agreement (2015, COP21) requires all parties to submit NDCs every five years, with each successive NDC expected to be more ambitious (ratchet mechanism).
- India's first NDC (2016): Reduce emissions intensity of GDP by 33-35% by 2030 from 2005 levels; achieve 40% cumulative electric power from non-fossil sources by 2030.
- India's updated NDC (August 2022): Raise ambition to 50% cumulative electric power from non-fossil sources by 2030; reduce emissions intensity by 45% from 2005 levels by 2030.
- India is among the few G20 nations on track to meet its Paris commitments, having already crossed the 50% non-fossil threshold.
- India's per capita emissions remain well below the global average at approximately 1.9 tonnes CO2 compared to the global average of about 4.7 tonnes.
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